Professional Application Antiballistic missiles (ABMs) are designed to have very large accelerations so that they may intercept fast-moving incoming missiles in the short time available. What is the takeoff acceleration of a 10,000-kg ABM that expels 196 kg of gas per second at an exhaust velocity of 2.50103 m/s?
BIOL 300 Foundations of Biology – Telleen Section 2 pt 5 c. We use this type of reasoning every day 4. Inductive Reasoning a. Where do general principles come from b. Science tries to discover the general principles that govern the physical world c. How Observation! d. Inductive reasoning uses examination of specific cases to discover/describe general principles e. Scientists use their observations to create hypotheses or models which have predictive power. If they work, they become the general principles! o Biology as a Science 1. There are four basic theories that unify biology as a science (these are the general principles that started out as hypotheses, but their predictive power was established/confirmed to such a degree that they became theories (remember in science, this is as close as we can get to fact!) 2. These four theories are a. Cell Theory – Living organisms are organized into cells, which were first observed by Robert Hooke in 1665 using one of the first microscopes ever made b. Gene Theory – Units of DNAare the molecular basis of inheritance. It is transcribed into RNA, which is in turn translated into protein. These molecules determine to a large extent what an organism will be like
