Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method

• School: Western University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: Earth Sciences 1086F/G
• Professor: Audrey Bouvier

Document Summary

To succeed in this science half-course, you need to become familiar with: The scientific method most scientists try to follow. Some of the language and definitions particular to this course. Hopefully, you"ll find as you go through the course that science is an objective, logical, and repeatable attempt to understand the principles and forces operating in the natural universe. So, in unit 1, we spend a fair bit of time learning the language", and then proceed to look at the event that created space, time, and us: the big. Finally, we learn how to make a star-planet system. To understand that science" is based upon the rigorous application of a method that begins with observation, proceeds to the formulation and testing of a hypothesis, and eventually to theory and possibly to law. To grasp the concept of the big bang", and all its limitations and frustrations!