Chapter 5 Vocab

Question 1

Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg’s interpretation of QM that holds that physical systems generally do not have definite properties prior to being measured

Answer 1

Copenhagen Interpretation

Question 2

variable hidden in quantum mechanics, which leads to the conclusion that quantum mechanics does not give a complete description for the system

Answer 2

hidden variables

Question 3

theory of matter and energy based on the concept of quanta (discrete values)

Answer 3

quantum theory

Question 4

Philosophical doctrine that states that everything that happens is determined by a necessary chain of causation

Answer 4

determinism

Question 5

a view that adheres to the philosophical theory that human action is not necessarily determined by motives, but is to some extent free

Answer 5

indeterministic

Question 6

holds that there is no cause for properties prior to being measured anticausal interpretation relating to the way the measurements and equations work

Answer 6

operational

Question 7

free from dependency, not relative, meaning it does not depend on a relationship with another absolute
related to the study of being

Answer 7

ontological

Question 8

the equation of the state of a hypothetical ideal gas that assumes gas particles are hard spheres, have no mass, and undergo perfectly elastic collisions, a good approximation of the behavior of many gases under many conditions but with limitations

Answer 8

ideal gas equation

Question 9

theory of the relations between heat and mechanical energy

Answer 9

thermodynamics

Question 10

action of considering something in the abstract, independently of its associations or attributes

Answer 10

abstraction

Question 11

defined by Boethius as an individual substance of a rational nature

Answer 11

person

Question 12

branch of philosophy concerned with the forms of thinking in general

Answer 12

logic