Physical science is the study of physical and chemical properties of nature, where aspects of ecology and the history property are studied to develop a wider understanding of nature. The physical science research success entails principles that help in developing the best way of doing the practice in procedural form. A procedure may be abstracted to aid in the physical science discipline helping the researcher have a concluded general model (Elias, 1998).The use of procedures in physical science is very important as it helps the involved parties have a laid plan of what they will do and how they will do it, the presence of a good laid out plan is that everything that should be done during the physical science process will be done and nothing will be left out while writing the lab report.
Exploration inside actual sciences has often been tied to each of our abilities associated with correctly paying attention to various activities as well as research. Even as we produce advanced design, we have now have utilized a lot more resources on observational capabilities. A lot of the disadvantages usually are;
Part 1: Challenges in Measurements;
Procedures in physical sciences face some challenges in measurements. One of the challenges is that it is difficult to balance perspectives that are competing because their ultimate goal is similar. Perspectives are viewed differently depending on the person who looks at them, it vary on every beholders view. This creates the issue of very many varying records of measurements depending on the number of persons involved. Such varying measured values will lead to halting of the physical science activities as definitive conclusion cannot be reached. The best way to solve this problem is to have a single individual who collects the measurements as they will tend to give a standard values every single time and conclusive decisions will be made.
Another challenge in measurements is how an accountability framework can be developed and this may be done using standards of accreditation or report cards. The problem with such forms of accountability methods is that they are easily compromised depending on the integrity of the person feeding the values. Therefore, the best way to stay ahead of such faults is to use computer systems that have protective firewall that are not easy to compromise and from them they can replace the easy to compromise individual in the process of feeding data values into the report cards hence increasing the level of accuracy and accountability.
The last challenge is how explicit criteria can be developed in the measurement processes. It importance is that it helps in creating standards of how thing should be done but the challenge come in the actual implementation. Some criteria will be given from opinion; however, such kind will not be as credible as that from the results of a scientific study. It is therefore important that all criteria be given from a credible scientific study to avoid the risk of getting wrong values from a personal opinion which should be avoided as much as possible.
The most historically influential tools are the reactants and reagents to be used while the influential techniques in physical sciences are experiments. These are activities carried out to prove the legitimacy of a hypothesis. Samples will be collected and then extensive studies, research and tests will be performed on them to find out its composition and once all this has been effectively conducted the hypothesis can be approved or declined. Different chemicals will also be put together at different conditions to see how they will react and what will help the chemical scientist make a decisive conclusion is from what they will observe or smell. This tool is very effective in helping us have an advanced understanding of the physical sciences because a report containing all the outcomes observed during the process will be published and every important detail will be available for any interested party to look at (Bernardo and Resetarits, 2001).
Once the chemical experiments are conducted, measure should be collected as they are important to show how the experiment performed. Some of these ways that chemical experiments are measured include the thermometric titration process which involves adding a solvent to another gradually until the expected outcome is observed. The values needed most is the time taken and the quantity of solvent needed to change the properties of the other. Measuring of the reaction rate is also another way chemistry experiments are measure as the reagents used will be mixed in specific rations which will then be measured to determine how successful the experiment was. The last is making of calculations using the collected values and the results are compared to the theoretical concept in chemistry books and the difference in values will be used to determine the correctness of how the experiment was conducted.
Part 2: A Survey of Safety
Involvement in chemical research comes with the risk of hazardous actives which are inevitable in such processes. The most hazardous material is where chemical science has focused most of its resources to exploit it and the element is uranium. This is because it is a power source that will never drain out, used to power big vessels like submarines and battleships; also uranium’s nuclear energy has been used in making of nuclear bombs which have very disastrous effects on the people and the environment. In the power plants where this element is experimented on, the people who work there use protective gear like the radioactive suits which helps them work in these harsh conditions this is because once the level of radioactivity reaches the critical levels in a human body it will lead to development of abnormal of bodily functions and the eventual death. The advancements in chemical science has led to exploration in fringe areas of science which will be our eventual downfall, hence the reason why there are international bodies whose main role is to campaign against the experiments conducted in the fringe science department, another safety measure is enacting of regulatory laws which control the extent to which experimental science projects should reach (Yang and Hamilton, 2010). Due to the sensitivity of nuclear energy, the possibility of meltdowns should be reduced to a very small minimum, and this is done by building very high quality structures where the designs are flawless, in the factories there should be equipment that prevent outside disturbance that could lead to a meltdown and the equipment should also keep monitoring the reactors making sure that they are always at an equilibrium and no levels are higher or lower than they should be.
Work cited
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