Physics I : Chapter 1 : Introduction to Physics

The study of the fundamental laws of nature

• astrology

• physics

• chemistry

• biology

An organized way of thinking about nature and understanding how it works

• existentialism

• renaissance

• science

• astrology

The systematic approach which scientists use to learn about the laws of nature

• Darwinism

• educated guessing

• Pythagorean Theorem

• scientific method

A description of an event

• conclusion

• observation

• hypothesis

• inference

A logical interpretation of your observations

• conclusion

• inference

• experiment

• scientific law

A detailed scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be verified or rejected by careful experiments

• inference

• scientific method

• scientific law

• hypothesis

Any scientific hypothesis can be tested with _____.

• a thermometer

• a microscope

• an experiment

• a barometer

The variable that the scientist changes in the experiment

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• control variable

• constant variable

The variable that is measured to see how it has changed as a result of the experiment

• control variable

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• constant variable

A detailed explanation of some aspect of nature that accounts for a set of well-tested hypotheses

• scientific theory

• theoretical probability

• systeme international

• dimensional precision