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Every Day Science 2012 - 1
1.
a scientific method will seek to explain natural events and make useful prediction in
a haphazard manner
a manner design to fit the theorist,s or experimenter,s bias
a consistently reproducible manner
none of these
2.
“truth is the sought for its own sake. And those who are engaged upon the quest for anything for its own sake are notinterested in other things. Finding the truth is difficult and the road to it is rough.” This was stated by which key figure in the development of scientific method in the 11th century?
aristotle
Ibn Al Haytham
plato
none of these
3.
abu abdullah muhammad bin musa al-khwarizmi is famous for writing the “kitab al jaber wal muqabla” in which he
presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations
delineated methods of oppression & competition
wrote the laws of optics
none of these
4.
gallieo gallies was perescuted by the catholic church for suspicon of holding the view that:
objects of different masses fell at the same velocity
the sun revolves arounds the moon
the earth was probably not the centre of the universe
none of these
5.
the proliferation of education and dissemination of knowledge in the last two centuries has led to a faith in science that:
causes human beings to turn on other human beings+
is the main cause of poverty and war
leads to oppression of education
none of these
6.
science attempts to:
explains how the universe works by dicovering the laws regulating everything around us
use dicovered laws to engineer new devices
both a & b
none of these
7.
ibn zuhr, the author of al taisir, is known as:
the father of experimental surgery
the founder of calculus
a biographer of provincial governors
none of these
8.
ibn khaldun’s muqqadimah is regarded by many as:
the first work dealing with a philosophy of history
a minor footnote in his writings
a well documented tale of his trial
none of these
9.
our sun is classified as
a blue giant
a yellow dwarf
supernova
none of these
10.
a physical, mathematical or logical representation of a natural phenomenon is called
phenomenal
a scientific model
a theoratical postulate
none of these
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