EARTHSC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Gas Giant, Aswan
17 Sep 2018
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How can we prepare of r the next hurricane to strike a major city like katrina and. Hypothesis formulation hypothesis= scientific explanation hypothesis testing make predictions conduct experiments, collect more data. Inductive reasoning observations hypothesis additional observations and/or experiments theory. Planet- a planet must have: large body orbiting the star (sun) has nearly spherical shape cosmology is the scientific study of the universe structure history. What is the structure of the universe? (cid:1688)three thousand years ago, people knew the heavens(cid:1689) first though the universe was geocentric (earth centered) Renaissance: a new age of discover in the the 1400s in europe. Egocentricity faded away has cleared its neighborhood of other objects (by gravity) Pluto,previously edified as a planet, does not meet the third characteristic and it. Moon- a solid body locked in orbit around planet. Gas giant planets- large, low, density, gas, giant planets is very small so it is no longer classified as a planet but a dwarf planet.
