This document discusses the key concepts of physics and the scientific method. It explains that physics aims to understand nature's rules through studying phenomena like star patterns and weather. The scientific method involves making hypotheses, predicting consequences, experimenting, and finding rules. It provides examples of Aristotle's hypothesis about falling objects being disproven by Galileo's experiments. Theories are distinguished from hypotheses as being synthesized from many verified hypotheses. The document asks the reader to determine which of several examples constitute a scientific hypothesis. It also distinguishes science from technology, with science answering theoretical questions and technology applying scientific knowledge practically.

1. Physics L1

2. About Science “ rules of the game” The study of nature’s rules Star patterns Weather patterns A way of thinking A collection of knowledge

4. The Language of Science

5. The Scientific Method Recognize problem Make hypothesis Predict consequences Perform experiments Find rule Hypothesis Educated guess Principle / Law Hypotheses tested by experiments and not contradicted

6. Aristotle’s hypothesis Regarding the free fall of an object An object twice as heavy falls twice as fast

7. Galileo’s experiment In the absence of air resistance, all objects fall in the same time Tower of Pisa, Italy

8. Theory Not hypothesis Synthesis of a large body of information Includes many verified hypotheses Undergoes change Atomic theory Cell theory

9. Tests of Hypotheses Scientific hypothesis can be proven right and wrong “ The alignment of planets determines the best time for making decisions” “ Intelligent life exists on other planets” “ Most people stop for red lights” “ No material object can travel faster than light”

10. Over to you Which hypothesis is scientific? “ Atoms are the smallest particles of matter”; “ Our universe is surrounded by another universe, which cannot be detected”; “ Albert Einstein was the greatest physicist of the twentieth century”

11. Science and Technology Science Answers theoretical questions A way of knowing Technology Putting science facts to practical use Interferes with life and nature A way of doing

13. End L1