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CH1 ABOUT SCI VOCAB
physic chapter 1 about science vocab - 6
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Scientific Method | An orderly method for gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge. |
Fact | A close agreement by competent observers of a series of observations of the same phenomena. |
Hypothesis | An educated guess; a reasonable explanation of an observation or experimental result that is not fully accepted as factual until tested over and over again by experiment |
Law | A general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted ; also known as a principle. |
Principle | A general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted ; also know as law. |
Theory | A synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about aspects of the natural world. |