Science Discussion - Scientific Attitude, Technology and the Art

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1. The urge to learn more and understand the natural world. You tend to question why such things are happening.

• Objectivity

• Rationality

• Curiosity

• Resourcefulness

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2. We base our thinking on reliable evidence. We don't easily believe in false information and fake news.

• Rationality

• Open-mindedness

• Critical-mindedness

• Objectivity

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3. Staying determined, focused, and dedicated to achieving your goals despite the challenges and difficulties.

• Humility

• Perseverance

• Objectivity

• Rationality

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4. Willingness to listen and consider the ideas, opinions, and suggestions of others.

• Acceptance of Failure

• Humility

• Open-mindedness

• Rationality

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5. Being able to learn from your mistakes and have a positive attitude about them.

• Humility

• Intellectual Honesty

• Perseverance

• Acceptance of Failure

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Which of these is a scientific hypothesis?

Choose all correct answers.

• The Moon is made of green cheese.

• Atomic nuclei are the smallest particles in nature.

• A magnet will pick up a copper penny.

• Cosmic rays cannot penetrate the thickness of your Conceptual Physics textbook.

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Which of these is NOT a scientific hypothesis?

• Protons carry an electric charge.

• Undetectable particles are some of nature's secrets.

• Charged particles bend when in a magnetic field.

• All of the above are scientific hypotheses.

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Which of these often changes over time with further study?

• Facts

• theories

• Both

• Neither

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A person who says, "that's only a theory" likely doesn't know that a scientific theory is a

• guess

• number of facts

• hypothesis of sorts

• vast synthesis of well-tested hypotheses and facts.

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Between a pilot and a priest, who do you think should fly a commercial jet airplane? Who should perform a marriage? (Although the questions are no-brainers, they have a point.)

• The pilot should fly and the priest should perform a marriage.

• The priest should fly and the pilot should perform a marriage.

• The pilot should do both.

• The priest should do both.

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What is technology

• An application that we use

• the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life

• It is a device that we use to watch Youtube and play games

• It's a daily of a human life

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What are the human-made objects

• Radio

• Grass

• Tree

• Water

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what is not technology?

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Although physics may be the most difficult science course in certain schools, when compared with the fields of chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy, it is

• the simplest.

• still the hardest! 

• the central science, between chemistry and biology.

• simple enough, but only for especially intelligent people.

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What is a hypothesis?

• A prediction a scientist makes before they start an experiment.

• a magnetic field

• a control

• an independent variable

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Objects fall to earth at the same rate no matter how much mass they have.

• True

• False

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Which object will hit the floor first if dropped from the same release point?

(No air resistance.)

• a hammer

• a rubber ball

• an apple

• They will all hit the floor at the same time.

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Gravity is a force that

• pushes

• accelerates

• pulls

• triggers

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What is speed?

• how far you go

• how much distance is covered over a period of time

• how fast you accelerate

• the change in the location of a object

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Which statement describes correctly the science of physics?

• Physics is the study of living things.

• Physics is the study of chemical bonds and processes.

• Physics is the study of medicine.

• Physics is the study of mattter and energy.