Wednesday, October 28,

CONTROL LABORATORY 2020

University Of Jordan

Mechanical Engineering Department

Control Lab (0904419)

Scientific Method
Done by

1. Radwan Tareef (0167120)

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People investigating some scientific hypothesis have a responsibility to the rest of the scientific
world to report their findings, particularly if these findings add to or contradict previous ideas.
So, they had to put some rules to do that important thing and to make it easy to other people to
understand their findings, those rules or steps called the Scientific Method is a process for
experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions. The goal of this
process to discover cause and effect relationships by asking questions, carefully gathering and
examining the results, and seeing if all the information can lead us to a logical answer.  

Also we as students have to use the scientific method during doing our lab reports to make sure
that we are fully understand everything we need to about the experiment.

Figure 1: Scientific Method Process

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As we can see from figure 1 that the scientific method is an iterative process because there is a
possibility for new information or new thinking to appear make you to back up and repeat steps
at any point during the process.

Here some main points of this process:

1. Ask a question.
The scientific method starts when you ask a question about something that you observe:
How, What, Who, Which, Why, or Where?
2. Do Background Research.
By using library and Internet research to help you find the best way to do things and
ensure that you don't repeat mistakes.
3. Construct A Hypothesis.
A hypothesis is an educated guess about how things work. It is an attempt to answer your
question with an explanation that can be tested. A good hypothesis allows you to then
make a prediction.
4. Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment.

Your experiment tests whether your prediction is accurate and thus your hypothesis is
supported or not. It is important for your experiment to be a fair test. You conduct a fair
test by making sure that you change only one factor at a time while keeping all other
conditions the same.

5. Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion.

Once your experiment is complete, you collect your measurements and analyze them to
see if they support your hypothesis or not.

References

 https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/science-fair/steps-of-
the-scientific-method

 https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-biology-
foundations/hs-biology-and-the-scientific-method/a/the-science-of-biology

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