1 Publish the results The conclusions of scientific studies are often used to create laws and scientific theories. Glass containers filled with water should not be put in the freezer because they will break. Define the experiment: the quantities you want to measure, the conditions of it and the equipment. The experiments can be done: • In the laboratory. • Outside. This is called fieldwork. Do the data confirm the hypothesis? Experiment Test the hypothesis by doing experiments that simulate the problem. We are going to study the volume that 1 kg of water occupies and its temperature. Analyse the data Use tables to collect the data and graphs to represent and analyse them. It is important to report the results of scientific studies for science to advance. The results are published in articles and books. The scienti f ic method is the set of procedu res and at t itudes we use to study and ex pla in the problems and the phenomena that happen in the un iverse, and come to va l id conclusions. 4 5 6 0 1.0012 1.0010 1.0008 1.0006 1.0004 1.0002 1.0000 4 8 12 16 T (°C) V (dm3) A conference at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research Scientif ic research does not a lways fol low these steps in order or complete them a l l. For example, astronomers can only measure what happens in the universe. They cannot do experiments on it . 13
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