SCMH 1010 EXAM 1 STEPHEN ADAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2026
Physical Science - ANS a field of science, such as astronomy, physics, and chemistry, that
studies nonliving matter
science is not - ANS Infallible
Complete
Political
Incompatible with religion
Pseudoscience - ANS A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no scientific
evidence.
Ptolemy - ANS An Egyptian astronomer in the second century AD, based his model on
extensive observations and data
Copernicus Universe - ANS Sun is in the center and the planets revolve around it
Tycho Brahe - ANS Danish astronomer who collected data to prove that Copernicus was
correct
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, Johannes Kepler - ANS After Brahe's death, he analyzed Brahe's data and formulated a very
accurate model of planetary movements
Speed - ANS How fast you are going
Formula is distance/time
Velocity - ANS Speed in a given direction
Formula is Change in position/change in time
Acceleration - ANS The rate at which velocity changes
Galileo's Great Experiment - ANS Showed that objects acting under the influence of gravity
accelerate regardless of their relative mass
State of Motion - ANS a description of how an object is moving (or not moving)
Force - ANS An influence applied by one object to another, which results in an acceleration or
deceleration of the second object.
Newton's First Law - ANS In the absence of a net external force, an objects state of motion
will remain; also called the law of inertia
Inertia - ANS The property of any object to resist changes in its state of motion
Constant velocity - ANS If moving, in straight line motion, neither speeding up nor slowing
down
Newton's Second Law - ANS Exactly how force is proportional to acceleration
Has to do with mass
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2026
Physical Science - ANS a field of science, such as astronomy, physics, and chemistry, that
studies nonliving matter
science is not - ANS Infallible
Complete
Political
Incompatible with religion
Pseudoscience - ANS A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no scientific
evidence.
Ptolemy - ANS An Egyptian astronomer in the second century AD, based his model on
extensive observations and data
Copernicus Universe - ANS Sun is in the center and the planets revolve around it
Tycho Brahe - ANS Danish astronomer who collected data to prove that Copernicus was
correct
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1
, Johannes Kepler - ANS After Brahe's death, he analyzed Brahe's data and formulated a very
accurate model of planetary movements
Speed - ANS How fast you are going
Formula is distance/time
Velocity - ANS Speed in a given direction
Formula is Change in position/change in time
Acceleration - ANS The rate at which velocity changes
Galileo's Great Experiment - ANS Showed that objects acting under the influence of gravity
accelerate regardless of their relative mass
State of Motion - ANS a description of how an object is moving (or not moving)
Force - ANS An influence applied by one object to another, which results in an acceleration or
deceleration of the second object.
Newton's First Law - ANS In the absence of a net external force, an objects state of motion
will remain; also called the law of inertia
Inertia - ANS The property of any object to resist changes in its state of motion
Constant velocity - ANS If moving, in straight line motion, neither speeding up nor slowing
down
Newton's Second Law - ANS Exactly how force is proportional to acceleration
Has to do with mass
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