SCMH 1010 FINAL EXAM Questions and Correct
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The Parable of the Cave suggest that... Ans: ALL OF THE ABOVE
Direct objective observation is very important.
Ideas based on no identifiable facts are likely to be very wrong and
misleading.
Uninformed people can cling to their beliefs, even when presented with
new information
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The Scientific disciplines... Ans: ALL OF THE ABOVE
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Depend on a self correcting cyclic method of investigation.
Can be used to predict behavior of complex systems.
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Work best in many instances when the investigator used a reductionist
approach.
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Uses methods to discover truths about their areas of study.
Good scientific methodology and results need... Ans: ALL OF THE ABOVE
Appropriate control conditions.
Hypothesis that can be tested.
Appropriate technology to test hypothesis.
Reliable and reproducible observations.
Quality observations for scientific purposes optimally should be... Ans:
ALL OF THE ABOVE
Describe in words.
Describe in equation form.
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Describe in mathematical symbols.
Quantifiable.
What is incorrect about strong hypotheses? Ans: It can be proven.
What is the bass quantity of mass in the SI system? Ans: Kilograms
What did the Duke gas based experimental study show? Ans: Enhanced
carbon dioxide resulted in added mass and growth of trees
In the Parable of the Cave one of the cave prisoners is able to discover
the truth about the shadows on the wall, but only when he is able to leave
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the cave and observe firsthand the wide world beyond the cave door.
True or False? Ans: True
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Science is... Ans: A particular way of thinking
The planets were observed to move in a retrograde manner for many
years. Turns out that... Ans: This is a position effect
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Copernicus proposed that... Ans: planets traveled in circles on their
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orbits. (Think: Coper Circles)
The people who made Stonehenge... Ans: ALL OF THE ABOVE
Started more than 4000 years ago.
Worked at various periods of time.
Were members of a diversity of tribes.
Retrograde motion by Uranus appears to be much smaller to the human
eye than the movement of Mars. Why? Ans: Uranus is much farther away.
Johannes Kepler DID NOT!! do what? Ans: He did not write the Principia.
Johannes Kepler was... Ans: A student of Brahe.
Was able to demonstrate that the planetary orbits were elliptical.
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Able to accurately describe the moons of Jupiter.
Kepler's First Law states... Ans: The area swept out during a period of
time was the same same at any time of the orbit.
Kepler's First Law - The orbits of the planets are most accurately
described as ellipses which unlike a circle, have 2 foci. True or False?
Ans: True.
The cube of the distance of a planet from the sun is numerically equal
to... Ans: The square of the period of time it takes to complete one orbit
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What is the acceleration? Ans: B & C are correct
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ΔV/Δt
Galileo discovered that... Ans: the distance traveled by a falling object
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could be described by (d)=(1⁄2)(a)(t^2)
Earth's radius ~ 6,500 km. If you climb a 'space ladder' that climbs about
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that height Newton's law of universal gravitation: F=G(m1)(m2)/(d^2)...
Ans: Your weight will be inversely related to the distance between you
and the earth
Bonus: How did Cavendish measure the Universal Gravitational Constant?
Ans: With an apparatus that had 4 balls and a twisted wire
Super bonus! You weigh less on the moon because... Ans: The moon has
less mass than Earth.
Many investigators had worked on the problem of inheritance previously
but failed to do the one critical thing that allowed Mendel to be
successful. What Mendel did that was so important was... Ans: He
extensively inbred his stocks so that they were true-breeding parental