Assignment:
Assignment: 1
• Select a statement you feel might represent pseudoscience. Write an essay supporting and refuting your selection, noting facts that support one position or the other.
• Explain and define the two components of a measurement statement. What does each component tell you?
• What are the significant similarities and differences between speed and velocity? Give your explanations.
• List and explain the significant similarities and differences between work and power.
• Most technological devices convert one of the five forms of energy into another. Try to think of a technological device that does not convert one energy form to another. Describe the significance of your findings.
Assignment: 2
• Define, compare, and contrast the concepts of temperature and heat.
• A true vacuum bottle has a double-walled, silvered bottle with the air removed from the space between the walls. Describe how this design keeps food hot or cold by dealing with conduction, convention, and radiation.
• Analyze the apparent contradiction in the statement that "solar energy is free" with the fact that solar cells are too expensive to use as a significant energy source. Where do you stand on this issue?
• Explain how the model of electricity as electrons moving along a wire is an oversimplification that misrepresents the complex nature of an electric current.
Assignment: 3
• Compare and contrast visible light and radio waves.
• Describe the experimental evidence that led Rutherford to the concept of a nucleus in an atom.
• Describe which of the following are whole numbers and which are not whole numbers giving your explanation for each one: Atomic number, Isotope mass, Mass number, Atomic weight.
• Write about the significant similarities and differences between a physical change and a chemical change.