CHEM 1053 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Humphry Davy, Bronze Age, Antoine Lavoisier
16 Nov 2017
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A scientific theory is an explanation if why certain thing happen the way that they do. They can evolve over time as new findings are made, but can never be "proven". A scientific law is a concise description of some natural phenomenon, and is a "distillation" of the results of repeated observation. A scientific law makes no attempt to explain why the phenomenon occurs in the first place. Bar graph:- in cases where the items on the x-axis are independent of each other or "not continuous" Line graph:- used when trying to show continuous trend. While extrapolation can sometimes give good predictions of the future, it often can lead to false conclusions. Statistics are used to show how well a set of empirical data coheres to the trend line. Science is important and it has lot of applications; it is behind innovation in technology, medicine, etc. Democritus believed that there were 2 types of substances:
