The exam covers Text book (Hartmann & Impey): Pages 60 - 139
The test is made of 30 Multiple Choice questions. You will get the entire class time (80 min).
1) Know the history of Newton's discoveries on Mechanics and Gravitation and his three Laws.
Inclass Assignment, Oct 12, 2004
Lecture notes: Page 29-31 (Renaissance Astro), 1-35 (Gravity, Light, Telescopes, Earth)
You NEED to bring a #2 pencil. We will provide the scanner answer sheets.
2) How did Newton prove the inverse square law for gravity using the Moon?
3) How did Newton first explain satellite orbits? What is escape velocity?
4) How is it that rockets are placed into space? Which of Newton's laws is applied?
5) Which color has the highest energy photons? Lowest? What light can humans detect?
6) How are wavelength and frequency related? How are they related to photon energy?
7) Know Wien's Law and Stefan-Boltzmann Law, ex. 'Hotter bodies radiate more..'
8) Know atomic structure (nucleus, electrons). Why are atomic transitions/energies unique?
9) Know Excitation/de-excitation, ionization/recombination. What is the ground state?
10) Which forms of electromagnetic radiation pass through our atmosphere?
11) Which is the objective lens(mirror)? What is its purpose? What does it determine?
12) Which is the eye piece? What is its purpose? What does it determine?
13) Know refracting and reflecting telescope designs. Which kind is a radio telescope?
14) What methods have been developed to allow very large telescopes to be built?
15) What is the purpose for building space telescopes? What are the drawbacks?
16) What is radioisotope dating? Who did it first? What is a half-life?
17) Which is the parent isotope? Daughter isotope? Why does the ratio give a rock age?
18) Know the interior layers of the Earth, approx chemistry--solid/liquid/plastic?
19) What are P-waves? S-waves? How do they differ in speed? Media they travel through?
20) What properties are required for a magnetic field? Where does Earth's originate?
21) Why does the mantle convect? What affect does this have on the Earth's crust?
22) What is plate tectonics? What is the evidence that it is occurring today?
23) What is the evidence of a super continent (Pangaea)? When did it exist?
24) Where'd our first atmosphere come from? What changed? Where'd our Oceans come from?
25) Be aware of the strong correlation between ones latitude on Earth and the weather.
26) What evidence was first used for a 'cosmic' connection to the Dinosaur extinction?
27) What is Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect? What caused the Ozone hole?
28) Understand Phases of the Moon. Know orientation for New, Full, Quarter, Gibbous.
29) Why do we see Tides? What effect has this had on Earth? What is Synchronous Rotation?
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