Study Guide for Astro 10 Mon Eve

Study Guide for Astro 10 Mon Eve - Spr ‘07

I've gone through our text and my question bank and found the section within the book which contains the relevant material to answer that question. There are about 10 questions on a typical quiz, so you'll see below for each quiz a list of ~10 section titles, one line for each quiz question. This is so amazingly helpful! - Now you can really focus your studying time. For example, unit 4 "Foundations of Astronomy" section 1 is given below as "4.1 The Scientific Method", and so on. In some cases, the relevant material is in two sections; you'll then see two lines for that question, one of them indented. For most questions, the answer to the question is given explicitly in the section listed. But in some cases, the text doesn't address it well, or at all. In this case, you'll see an "L" out in front.That means consult your notes from my "L"ecture on that material. In some cases, the material is spread through the entire unit, not a single section within that unit. In other cases, the section contains all the basic facts, but you'll need to do some reasoning to deduce an answer not given explicitly. In these cases, you'll see an "R" (for "reasoning required").

So, like all good exams, there's a mix of easy, hard, factoid, and inductive reasoning questions. There's even a couple of extra credit questions floating around in my test bank. If you get one, there's no mark-off if you get it wrong, and you get a bonus if you get it right. I'm SO generous!

Quiz #1

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0.6 Pseudo-Science

0.7 General Principles in the Design of a Scientific Test

0.5 Steps of the Scientific Method

0.1 Natural Selection & Development of Mind

L 2 Beyond the Solar System

2.4 Galaxy Clusters and Beyond

R 8.1 Phases of the Moon

8.2 Eclipses

6.1 Annual Motion of the Sun

R 7.2 Length of Daylight Hours

Quiz #2

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12.2 The Nature of Planetary Orbits

L 12.2 The Nature of Planetary Orbits

20.2 Conservation of Angular Momentum

19.2 Solar Tides

R 16.2 Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation

16.2 Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation

& 16.3 Surface Gravity and Weight

22.4 Energy Carried by Photons

21.5 Atomic Energies

24.2 Identifying Atoms by Their Light

Quiz #3

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34.2 Detecting Exoplanets

33.1 Radioactive Dating

L 34 Other Planetary Systems

32.1 The Components of the Solar System

36.5 The History of the Oceans and Atmosphere

& 42.2 The Roll of Water and Biology

L 40 Mars

46.1 The Galilean Satellites

36.4 Air and Ocean Circulation: The Coriolis Effect

& 43.3 Stormy Atmospheres

47.3 The Comet's Tail

Quiz #4

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51.1 Sunspots, Prominences, and Flares

51.4 The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate

R 49.5 Pressure Balance

51.1 Sunspots, Prominences, and Flares

& 36.1 Structure of the Atmosphere

49.4 The Solar Atmosphere

R 56.1 Types of Binary Stars

R 52.2 Parallax

& 52.3 Calculating Parallaxes

55.3 The Development of Spectral Classification

& 55.4 How Temperature Affects a Star's Spectrum

R 58.2 The Mass-Luminosity Relation

58.1 Analyzing the H-R Diagram

Quiz #5

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L 60.1 Interstellar Gas Clouds

L 69.1 Types of Star Clusters

62.1 Restructuring Following the Main Sequence

L 61 Main Sequence Stars

67.1 Pulsars and the Discovery of Neutron Stars

R 64.4 White Dwarfs

& 65.1 Novae

66.3 Massive Star Supernova Explosions

68.4 Stretching of Space and Time by Gravitation

68.2 Curved Space

64.1 The Fate of Stars like the Sun

Quiz #6

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70 Discovering the Milky Way

L 71.1 Two Stellar Populations: Pop I and Pop II

71.2 Formation of our Galaxy

73.1 The Mass of the Milky Way and the Number of its Stars

76.1 The Local Group

75.3 What Causes the Different Galaxy Types?

& 75.4 Galaxy Collisions and Mergers

75.3 What Causes the Different Galaxy Types?

77.3 Cause of Activity in Galaxies

L 75 Types of Galaxies

77.3 Cause of Activity in Galaxies

Quiz #7

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76.4 Large Scale Structure

L 78 Dark Matter

78.2 Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies

81.5 Cosmological Problems Solved by Inflation

L 80 The Edges of the Universe

80.1 Olber's Paradox

82.4 Dark Energy

L 83 Astrobiology

L 83.4 The Anthropic Principle

L 84.1 The Search for Life on Mars

84.3 Are we Alone?

Final Exam Study Guide

0.8 Occam's Razor

0.3 The Real World

2.2 The Milky Way Galaxy

L 5.4 Latitude and Longitude

8.2 Eclipses

R 8 Lunar Cycles

12.2 The Nature of Planetary Orbits

16.2 Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation

L 19.1 Cause of Tides

15.1 Acceleration

& 16.2 Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation

21.1 The Nature of Light

L 22.3 Infrared and UltraViolet Light

23.4 Taking the Temperature of Astronomical Objects

L 33.4 Formation of the Planets

& 33.5 Late Stage Bombardment

L 33.4 Formation of the Planets

& 33.5 Late Stage Bombardment

32.3 Composition of the Solar System

L 37.2 Crust and Interior

40.4 The Martian Atmosphere

L 46.1 The Galilean Satellites

43.1 The Appearance of Jupiter and Saturn

& 36.4 Air and Ocean Circulation: The Coriolis Effect

47.3 The Comet's Tail

49.3 Energy Transport

50.3 Solar Neutrinos

49.3 Energy Transport

56.2 Measuring Stellar Masses with Binary Stars

58.2 The Mass-Luminosity Relation

R 56.1 Types of Binary Stars

52.3 Calculating Parallaxes

69.3 The Initial Mass Function

61.3 Main Sequence Lifetime of a Star

65.3 Supernovae of Type Ia

L 64 Mass Loss and Death of Low-Mass Stars

64.4 White Dwarfs

64.2 Ejection of a Star's Outer Layers

& 66.1 Formation of Heavy Elements

71.2 Formation of our Galaxy

71.1 Two Stellar Populations: Pop I and Pop II

70.3 Globular Clusters and the Size of the Galaxy

77.2 Quasars

75.4 Galaxy Collisions and Mergers

77.3 Cause of Activity in Galaxies

75.2 Differences in Star and Gas Content

78.4 What is Dark Matter?

78.2 Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies

80.4 The Curvature of the Universe

& 81.5 Cosmological Problems Solved by Inflation

L 80 The Edges of the Universe

R 80.2 The Cosmic Microwave Background

83.2 The Origin of Life

L 84 The Search for Life Elsewhere