BIOL 11000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heat Capacity, Deductive Reasoning, Scientific Method
20 Dec 2017
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Don"t worry about the names, people or dates they were born, just focus on the progression of developing the scientific method! Starts off with lots and lots of observations. Example: if you get in your car in the morning and it doesn"t start, that"s an observation. You try to figure out the issue, try to turn the key and if the electricity works, you look at the gas gauge, if its e(cid:373)pty, the(cid:374) its pro(cid:271)a(cid:271)ly (cid:374)ot starti(cid:374)g (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause its e(cid:373)pty this is the s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) (cid:373)ethod! Systematic logic: looking at what you saw and trying to find a logical reason as to why something is the way it is. Was a part of the religious society but first to recognize that there may be a difference between things discussed in religious text and what actually happens in nature. Use science to work out the nature of things. Came up with the first prototype of the scientific method and controlled experiments.
