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Scientific Method continued
Limitations of Science
Digging Deeper; using the gray matter
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This is a framework in which scientists can analyze situations, explain certain phenomena and answer certain questions.
What is the scientific method?
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A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data.
What is a scientific law?
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This is the fifth step of the Scientific Method.
What is perform experiments over several year or continue to test the theory with generations of data?
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This is the first limitation of science.
What is it cannot prove anything?
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When electricity passes through a wire and heat and light are produced by the resistance of the flow.
What is superconductivity?
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A collection of data.
What is an observation?
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This is the first step of the Scientific method.
What is make observations?
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This is the 6th and final step of the Scientific Method.
What is the theory becomes a law?
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This is the second limitation of science.
What is it is not 100% reliable?
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This is the name of the theory that explains superconductivity.
What is the BCS theory?
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An example that contradicts a conclusion.
What is a counter-example?
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This is the second step in the Scientific method.
What is form a hypothesis?
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If data collected during experiments is not consistent with the theory or the hypothesis this needs to happen.
What is adjust or discard the hypothesis or theory?
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This is the third limitation of science.
What is it must conform to the scientific method?
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This is why scientists were supervised to discover high-temperature superconductors.
What is because a scientific theory said that they should not exist?
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An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.
What is a hypothesis?
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This is the third step in the Scientific Method.
What is Perform Experiments or collect data to confirm the hypothesis?
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This is wrong with the following statement: All objects, regardless of their weight, fall at the same rate.
What is the statement does not mention air. It should say In the absence of air, all objects, regardless of their weight, fall at the same rate.
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Because a scientific theory or law can be overthrown by just one counterexample this makes scientific conclusions...
What is tentative?
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As long as this is used an individual can study how life originated on earth.
What is the scientific method?
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A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data.
What is a theory?
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What is the fourth step in the Scientific Method?
What is the hypothesis is now a theory?
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If the conclusion to your hypothesis is wrong it is possible that you still followed the scientific method?
What is yes.
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In Lowell's observation of Mars and the theory that intelligent life inhabited Mars did he use the Scientific Method?
What is yes?
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In the extra credit portion of our reading this was the hypothesis made by the author of our text book.
What is the Bible is the Word of God?
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