Conceptual Physics (12th Edition)
Conceptual Physics (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780321909107
Author: Paul G. Hewitt
Publisher: PEARSON
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What is science.

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Science is the knowledge which man has gained through observations and experimentations. Science is a body of knowledge that describes the order within nature and the causes of that order.

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Science is an ongoing human activity that represents collective efforts, findings, and wisdom of human race, an activity that is dedicated to gathering knowledge about the world and organizing and condensing it into testable laws and theories. We make observations and then perform experiments and this leads to new discoveries

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Thus, we can define science as the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

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