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Science, Technology, and Society - C388 Exam Study Guide Solutions Precise - ANSWER-pinch of salt, how close values are in a series. Accurate is how close the value is to the actual, correct value. accurate - ANSWER-is how close the value is to the actual, correct value. accurate and precise -...

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Precise - ANSWER✔✔-pinch of salt, how close values are in a series. Accurate is how

close the value is to the actual, correct value.


accurate - ANSWER✔✔-is how close the value is to the actual, correct value.


accurate and precise - ANSWER✔✔-graduated cylinder


neither accurate nor precise - ANSWER✔✔-using different lengths to measure

something


Isaac Newton - ANSWER✔✔-(1665) laid the foundations for classical mechanics,

explaining the law of gravity and the laws of motion.


Louis Pasteur - ANSWER✔✔-(1856) Pasteur contributed greatly towards the

advancement of medical sciences developing cures for rabies, anthrax and other

infectious diseases. Also invented the process of pasteurisation to make milk safer to

drink. He probably saved more lives than any other person.


Galileo - ANSWER✔✔-(1609) Creating one of the first modern telescopes, Galileo

revolutionised our understanding of the world, successfully proving the Earth revolves



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,around the Sun and not the other way around. His work Two New Sciences laid the

groundwork for the science of Kinetics and strength of materials.


Marie Curie - ANSWER✔✔-(1867) Polish physicist and chemist. Discovered radiation

and helped to apply it in the field of X-ray. She won the Nobel Prize in both Chemistry

and Physics.


Albert Einstein - ANSWER✔✔-(1917) Revolutionised modern physics with his general

theory of relativity. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) for his discovery of the

Photoelectric effect, which formed the basis of Quantum Theory.


Charles Darwin - ANSWER✔✔-Darwin developed his theory of evolution against a

backdrop of disbelief and scepticism. He collected evidence over 20 years and

published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1831).


Otto Hahn - ANSWER✔✔-Hahn was a German chemist who discovered nuclear fission

(1939). He was a pioneering scientist in the field of radiochemistry and discovered

radioactive elements and nuclear isomerism (1921). He was awarded the Nobel Prize

for Chemistry in 1944.


Nikola Tesla - ANSWER✔✔-(1888) Tesla worked on electromagnetism and AC current.

He is credited with many patents from electricity to radio transmission and played a

key role in the development of modern electricity.


James Clerk Maxwell - ANSWER✔✔-(1861) Maxwell made great strides in

understanding electromagnetism. His research in electricity and kinetics laid the

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, foundation for quantum physics. Einstein said of Maxwell, "The work of James Clerk

Maxwell changed the world forever."


Aristotle - ANSWER✔✔-(384 BCE-322 BCE) A great early Greek scientist who made

many types of research in the natural sciences including botany, zoology, physics,

astronomy, chemistry, meteorology and geometry.


Zhang heng - ANSWER✔✔-Constructed first seismograph in 132


Archimedes - ANSWER✔✔-(287-212 BCE) Greek mathematician and inventor. He

wrote works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. He is best known

for the lever and pulley.


Ibn al-Haytham - ANSWER✔✔-(965-1040) Muslim doctor who founded the science of

optics


Leonardo da Vinci - ANSWER✔✔-(1503) Italian painter, engineer, musician, and

scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo filled notebooks with

engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their

time. As a painter Leonardo is best known for The Last Supper (c. 1495) and Mona Lisa

(c. 1503).


Nicolaus Copernicus - ANSWER✔✔-(1520) Polish clergyman. Sun was the center of the

universe; the planets went around it. On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres.

Destroyed Aristotle's view of the universe - heliocentric theory.



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