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| cogitation, observation, and experimentation |
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| What are the three ways of answering a scientific question? |
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| (1) formulate a question, (2) investigate, (3) look at the hard facts, (4) formulate a hypothesis, (5) design an experiment, (6) experiment, (7) analyze the procedure and the results, (8) report validation to other scientists |
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| What are the steps in the scientific method? |
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| The results of direct measurements |
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| The arithmetic combinations of fundamental units |
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| U.S. Customary System, metric system, and the CGS system |
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| What are the three systems of units? |
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| meter (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), kelvin (k), mole (mol), and candela (cd) |
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| What are the seven fundamental SI units? |
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| Because different units contain different values |
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| Why is it important to include the units when reporting measurements? |
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| the meter, kilogram, and second |
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| What are the standards for the SI units of length, mass, and time? |
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| It helps save the time and space required to write down all the zeros in extremely large or extremely small numbers. |
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| How is scientific notation useful? |
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| A conversion technique using conversion factors that are equal to or approximately equal to 1 as a series of multiplied fractions to cancel out unwanted units and leave the desired units |
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| What is dimensional analysis? |
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| When they are the zeros between non-zero numbers. |
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| When is zero significant? |
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| A measurement's closeness to the actual value |
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| A series of measurement's closeness to each other |
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| System error is due to some cause that affects every measurement in the same way. |
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| Random error cannot be eliminated and can include a host of uncontrollable factors. |
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