Physics A-Level
Scientific community
What Scientific community means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Scientific community
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The collective body that debates and validates a change, so acceptance is social as well as empirical.
Topics that use Scientific community
- Wave-particle duality (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- de Broglie wavelength
- Development of scientific models
- Momentum and diffraction
- Peer review
- Photoelectric effect
- Provisional nature of science
- Threshold frequency
- Wave-particle duality
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