Common Lab Equipment
A piece of lab equipment used to measure the mass of an object
What is a balance?
0.0014, or 14 ten-thousandths in scientific notation
What is 1.4 x 10-3?
The primary type of logical reasoning used in modern science as exemplified by the scientific method
What is inductive reasoning?
The Ancient Greek philosopher who denied the existence of fundamentally small atoms and claimed that void was impossible
Who is Aristotle?
The name of the model developed by Niels Bohr
What is the planetary model?
A piece of lab equipment that uses natural gas to produce a flame
What is a bunsen burner?
The range of numbers that the coefficients in scientific notation must be between
What is greater than or equal to 1, and less than 10?
The completion of the phrase beginning with "laws describe what, theories ____________"
What is "explain why"?
The random motion of pollen grains on the surface of water
What is Brownian motion?
The property of a wave defined as the distance between the crests of 2 successive waves
What is wavelength?
The name of a type of conical flask that is used for storing, holding, and mixing chemical mixtures
What is an Erlenmeyer flask?
The method for multiplying two numbers in scientific notation
What is the multiplication of the coefficients and the addition of the exponents of two numbers in scientific notation?
The process of logical reasoning that goes from general principles/premises to specific conclusions
What is deductive reasoning?
The central part of the atom discovered by the gold foil experiment
What is the nucleus?
The statement that there is a fundamental limit on what can be known simultaneously about the momentum and position of a particle
What is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
A wire frame that is placed over an iron ring clamp to suspend a flask/beaker over a flame
What is wire gauze?
The quotient of 4.8 x 10-3 / 2.0 x 103
What is 2.4 x 10-6?
Often a terse mathematical statement that describes an action under given circumstances
What is a scientific law?
The subatomic particle that carried charge across the vacuumed cathode ray tube
What is the electron?
The particle that is emitted from an electron as it falls back down to its ground electronic state, its lower energy orbital
A piece of glassware that is used to accurately and precisely measure the volume of a liquid
What is a graduated cylinder?
The sum of 2.45 x 1024 and 1.30 x 1023
What is 2.58 x 1024?
A reasonable guess/prediction based off observations in the natural world that can be supported/disproven through experimentation
What is a hypothesis?
The discoverer of the third subatomic particle, the neutron
Who is James Chadwick?
The phenomenon of the emission of electrons from metal atoms when hit with high frequency light
What is the photoelectric effect?