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General Physics
Vocabulary
Averages
Scientific Method
Making a graph
100
Physics, chemistry, geology and astrology are examples of the same type of science.
What is non-living science?
100
A close agreement by competent observers who make a series of observations of the same phenomenon.
What is a fact?
100
How do you calculate an average?
What is add all the trials together and then divide by the total trials?
100
"Ms. Pittel is wearing a gray sweater" is an example of what piece of the scientific method.
What is an observation?
100
The name that goes at the top of a graph.
What is a title?
200
These are used to simplify the language of science using math.
What is an equation?
200
This is an educated guess that is not fully accepted until demostrated by experimentation.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Trial one: 10 seconds Trail two: 16 seconds Calculate the average of the two trials
What is 13 seconds?
200
This is how a good hypothesis is phrased in this class.
What is "If, Then, Because"
200
This axis runs horizontally across a graph.
What is the x-axis?
300
Biology is an example of what type of science.
What is living science?
300
If a hypothesis about the relationship among natural quantities are tested over and over again and not contradicted, they become these two things.
What is a law or principle
300
Trial one: 56.7 Trial two: 50.4 Trial three: 52.3 Calculate the average
What is 53.1?
300
These two scientists are credited as the fathers of the Scientific Method.
Who are Galileo and Bacon?
300
If I am skipping a big chunk of numbers, I put this on my y-axis.
What is that squiggly thing?
400
This looks at nature's order
What is science?
400
A series of steps a scientist uses to figure out something amazing
What is the scientific method?
400
Trial one: 0.89 seconds Trial two: 0.34 seconds Trial three: 0.27 seconds Trial four: 0.52 seconds Calculate the average
What is 0.505 seconds?
400
This came first, the chicken or the egg.
What is the egg?
400
This goes on the y-axis (think of the plop plop fizz fizz lab)
What is what was measure, like time
500
This looks at nature's purpose
What is Religion?
500
These evolve as they go through stages of redefinition and refinement.
What is a theory?
500
Trial one: 90.2 Trial two: 99.9 Trial three: 94.7 Trial four: 95.6 Trial five: 97.3 Calculate the average
What is 95.54?
500
A good hypothesis should always be...
What is falsifiable?
500
This is the type of graph a bar graph is. (categorical or numerical?
What is categorical?