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Scientific
Method
The Scientific Method
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hypothesis
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What is the “Scientific
Method”?
Advantage of the scientific method.
• Results are unprejudiced.
• Results are repeatable.
A Unproved
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Guess
Scientific Law:
A statement of fact.
Explains an action or set of actions.
Accepted to be true and universal.
Can be a single mathematical equation.
Scientific Law:
Nothing yet,
how about
you Newton!
Hypothesis:
Educated guess.
Based upon observation.
Rational explanation of a phenomenon.
Not been proved.
Supported / refuted by experimentation.
Johannes Kepler’s Uphill Battle
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So you see, the planet?
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What’s
planet is an
elliptical
elliptical orbit?
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Theory: