Ch. 1
The minimum characteristics that a design must have to function.
What is criteria?
If some data could exist that would prove a hypothesis to be incorrect, the hypothesis is _______________.
What is falsifiable?
The property that causes matter to resist changes in motion.
What is inertia?
The closeness of a measurement to the quantity's actual value.
What is accuracy?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
A conclusion based on reasoning from evidence.
What is inference?
Logical fallacy that involves assuming that one thing causes another because it occurred before the other.
What is post hoc fallacy?
How many significant digits are in 1000.10?
6
What is a standard of measure?
The amount of gravitational pull on an object.
What is weight?
Reasoning from specific evidence to a general conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
Fallacy that occurs when a single term is ambiguously used with 2 different meaning in a single argument.
What is equivocation?
The prefix added to a unit to indicate one-thousandth.
What is milli?
The system of measurement that adds a prefix to each basic unit to make it larger or smaller.
What is the metric system?
The amount of space an object occupies.
What is volume?
The ability of other scientists to reach the same conclusion by performing the same experiment under different conditions.
What is reproducibility?
Models with the exact same shapes, proportions, and appearance as the object they are representing.
What are physical models?
The SI unit for mass.
What is kilogram?
What metric prefix represents a unit to the power of 10-2?
What is centi?
Measure of an object's thermal energy.
What is temperature?
In logic, this is called a statement of fact.
What is a proposition?
This step of the scientific method involves organizing data and researching the findings of other scientist's data.
What is observing?
The system of measurement accepted as the standard for scientific and technical purposes.
What is SI?
The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a standard substance.
What is specific gravity?
This step in the scientific method involves formulating a tentative explanation to answer a scientific problem.
What is hypothesizing?