Name : Patricia Angelin Sihaloho Improvements in natural

Class : Physics education D 2019 sciences are vital to our rulers if

they want to compete effectively
EXERCISE 1
with each other.
1. In what ways do the changes in
technology affect science? Name three.

a. Development of technologi :
Changes in technology can make
new experiments possible and
they also influence the problems
that scientists develope an interst
in.
b.The way that the dominan ideas in But the distorted worldview of
society change. Ideas from the
broader culture can impinge upon capitalism still impacts on
science. Newton's idea were part sciences. Extremely narrow and
of a revolutionary new attempt at
specialized bodies of knowledge
a rational explanation of both
nature and society. develop.
c. Science moves forward because
scientists seek to develop logically
consistent theories. This can push 4.Why can Einstein’s
them beyond the dominant or breakthrough not be “reduced
common sense ideas of their time.
simply to changes in technology
2.According to the writer, how do or wider cultural and ideological
the attitudes of the authority
figures differ towards the shifts”?
developments in social sciences Because science not simply the
and natural sciences? gathering and ordering of data
Delving too deeply into how society about outside world. It also
is organized might raise difficult requires abstraction-developing
questions for our rulers. Less is at theories about the underlying
stake in the natural sciences laws of nature that are usually
not immediately apparent. This
3.In the writer’s view, how does crucial role of theory is not just
capitalism affect science a feature of the natural sciences
negatively?
B. Guessing Vocabulary
1-Find a word or an expression in
paragraph 1 which means “to
propose”: _suggested
2-Find a word or an expression in
paragraph 2 which means
“dominant”: Quantum theory led,
in the 1920s dan 1930s to another
revolution in physics
3-Find a word or an expression in
paragraph 5 which means
“attribute”: Science moves
forward because scientist seek to
develop logically consistent
theories

C. Reference Words
1. (Par.2) “those” refers to The
physical result
2. (Par. 3) “doing this” refers to
Relativity and quantum theory
3. (Par. 5) “this” refers to Science
moves forward because scientist
seek to develop logically
consistent theories
EXERCISE 2
Text 1 : A clever policemen
Text 2 : An unfortunate son
Text 3 : UFO seen over britain

EXERCISE 3
1. a well-known professor who has just published his confessions = Invention
2. a scientist who has admitted inventing the results of his experiments =
Professor
3. a scientist who has killed himself because he couldn't get the same results as
everybody else = Different Result
4. scientist who regrets the publication of the results of his experiments =
Regrets It