ESCI 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inner Core, Emil Wiechert, Ct Scan
8 Sep 2017
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What are the steps in the scientific method, making observations, creating a hypothesis, hypothesis: tentative explanation based on data, test to see if the hypothesis holds. If so : create a theory, this is formed by creating a set of hypotheses that have survived the challenges of experimentations and now have a substantial amount of support through the collected data. Scientific model: precise (specific) representation of how a natural system is built or should behave, example of the scientific method: : a traveler lived in a city called syene. Looked down at the bottom of the well at noon and noticed the whole bottom of the well was light up. Traveled to alexandria to meet eratosthenes who claimed the. He placed a pole in alexandria and used the well in. If the earth was flat, the bottom of the well would be completely light up and the pole would have no shadow.
