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The scientific method is a process aimed at explaining
phenomena, etablishing relations among the facts and stating laws which
explain the physical phenomena of the world and allow us to obtain,
with this knowledge, useful applications for mankind.
Scientists use the scientific method as a planned way of
working. Their achievements are accumulative and they have brought
mankind to our present cultural situation.
Without Science there is no Culture!
Cultural milestones are linked to scientific discoveries: the stone age, the bronze age ... and the space age.
Although we can say that there is not only one scientific method or classical model,
some factors are common to all of them: a brilliant idea on the part of
mankind, the complementary work of the scientists and the sciences,
reliability, the use of mathematical tools, etc. The procedures
described in this topic are also common to all of them.
All scientific research is always subject to the "test of
verification" which means that their discoveries can be confirmed ,
through experimentation, by anybody anywhere, and that their hypotheses
are revised and changed if they are not proved.
In this topic we will use as examples
the supposed steps of Galileo in his research on the pendulum and other
examples-activities of the stages of the S.M. when studying a
movement.
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