EAPS 11200 Lecture 2: 01092019 (lot of lab material)

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Course: EAPS 11200
• Professor: Terry West

Document Summary

Science is an expression of human curiosity and a desire to learn: the world around us, where we came from, how we got to where we are, where we might be going in the future. Science is many things: the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of sheer curiosity, seeks to organize observable information into testable and predictive explanations of natural phenomena. Insists that our world can be understood: a body of knowledge about the physical world. Imagination and creativity: curiosity, passion for knowledge, dedication. Intellectual honesty: open to new ideas, healthy dose of skepticism, may display characteristics of having an obsessive compulsive disorder . There can be no science without observations and experimentation: 2. Observations supply the facts of science, but not the explanation: 3. Scientific method: scientific method consists of, collection of facts (data), classification of data, formulation of a hypothesis, testing of the hypothesis, recognition of a theory.