1. Do an Internet search for each of the items listed below. Based on this infor
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1. Do an Internet search for each of the items listed below. Based on this information, determine whether each is part of the core ideas, frontier ideas or fringe ideas in science.
a) cold fusion
b) quantum electrodynamics
c) homeopathic treatment of flu symptoms (oscillococcinum)
d) big bang cosmology
e) nuclear fusion reactors
f) link between low-level electromagnetic radiation and leukemia
2. Characterize each of the following as an example of a scientific law, scientific theory, hypothesis, observation, or none of these.
a) an apple a day keeps the doctor away
b) my brother doesn’t like to eat salads
c) your cell phone isn’t working because the battery must be dead ,
d) breaking a mirror brings seven years of bad luck
e) all matter is composed of atoms
3. Which of the following is a scientific theory?
A. Beethoven’s contributions to music would have been greater if he had married
B. left-handed people are more artistically inclined
C. vitamin C prevents the common cold
D. all of the above
E. none of the above
4. Indicate whether each of the following is an example of a scientific law. If an item isn’t a law, identify what it represents.
a) Like electric charges repel
b) Particles in the gas phase exert a pressure by colliding with the container walls
c) Metals tend to be good conductors of electricity.
d) In a chemical reaction, matter is neither created nor destroyed
e) Visible light consists of photons
4)Using Internet resources, decide whether air ionizers really provide effective air purification or whether this is pseudoscience. Justify your conclusion with specific information.
Explanation / Answer
2.
(a) Observation
(b) observation
(c) Hypothesis
(d) none of these
(e) Law
3.
(D)
4. All are correct
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