CHAPTER TWO The Logic of the Problem Good Thinking and Its Rewards
Subject-Independent Logic (Subject-Specific Laws)
In many of your science courses, you will have to keep certain scientific facts, observations, or mathematical relationships in mind en route to solving problems. And several of those facts, observations, and relationships, have been shown (often through years of detailed investigation and confirmations by scientists) to be so broadly applicable and significant that they have now been codified as formal principles, rules, theorems, or laws.1 For example:
- The zeroth law of thermodynamics: Put simply, if A and C are each at the same temperature as B, then A and C are both at the same temperature. ...
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