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Review

• The scientific method is based on observation and replicating results.
• The metric system was developed in France in the late eighteenth century. Its base
units include the gram, the meter, and the liter.
• Good scientific experiments change one variable at a time.
• A control experiment (or group) is one in which the variable being tested does not
change; this provides the scientist with a way to see the effects of a changing variable in
other groups.
• In double-blind experiments, neither the researchers nor the subject tested know who is
in the control group and who is not. (These experiments radically reduce bias.)

Recommended Resources

Beginner's Guide to Scientific Method, A . (Stephen S. Carey): Wadsworth Publishing, 2003.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics . (David R. Lide): CRC Press, 2002.

Chemistry: Concepts and Problems: A Self-Teaching Guide . (Clifford C. Houk and Richard Post): Wiley,
1996.

Conceptual Physical Science . (Paul G. Hewitt, et. al.): Addison Wesley, 2003.

Dictionary of Physics, A. (Alan Isaacs, ed.): Oxford University Press, 2000.

Introductory Chemistry. (Charles H. Corwin): Prentice Hall, 2000.

Physical Universe, The. (Konrad B. Krauskopf): McGraw Hill, 2000.

Physics Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide. (Stan Gibilisco): McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002.

Physics for the Utterly Confused. (Robert Oman and Daniel Oman): McGraw-Hill, 1998.

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