سوال ۲۲ کنکور ارشد علوم کامپیوتر ۱۴۰۵ — PASSAGE 3 (paragraph 1): Computer science is unique among the…

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PASSAGE 3 (paragraph 1): Computer science is unique among the sciences in the types of models it creates. In seeking explanations, science often constructs models to test hypotheses for explaining phenomena. These models, in the form of experimental apparatus, are of course physical objects. The models built and manipulated in computer science, however, are not physical at all. Computer science is a science concerned with the study of computational processes. A computational process is distinguished from, say, a chemical or electrical process, in that it is studied “in ways that ignore its physical nature” (Hailperin et al. 1999: 3). For example, the process by which a card player arranges cards in her hand, and the process by which a computer sorts names in a customer list, though they share nothing in common physically, may nevertheless embody the same computational process. Question: According to paragraph 1, which of the following is true about the distinction between other sciences and computer science?

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The former construct models in the form of physical objects to test hypotheses for explaining phenomena, while the latter bypass physical attributes.

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In computer science, processes are much more similar to games such as playing cards, in which both use physical objects such as cards or name lists.

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The former ignore the physical nature of phenomena, whereas the latter test hypotheses through the construction of models in the form of physical objects.

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In a chemical or electrical process, the physical object is studied “in ways that ignore its physical nature”, while computer processes do the opposite.