Which does not describe a law?

a. A law summarizes observations.
b. A law explains observations.
c. A law is the largest construct to summarize experimental observations
d. A law explains unvarying uniformity under the same conditions.


ANS: B
Laws provide explanations to events that occur in nature which are uniform when tested under the
same conditional parameters. Therefore, a law is able to summarize observations. A theory is actually
responsible for supplying explanations for those observations. Information can be found in the section
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