Study Guides for Astro 4 MW morn - Spring ‘08
I've gone through our text and my question bank and found the chapter and subsection 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 question. This is so amazingly helpful - Now you can really focus your studying time!
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 spreads through the entire chapter, not a single section within that chapter. 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
L 0.8 Occam's Razor
& 3.4a How can we distinguish science from nonscience?
0.7 General Principles in the Design of a Scientific Test
0.8 Occam's Razor
& 3.4a How can we distinguish science from nonscience?
0.5 Steps of the Scientific Method
& 3.4a How can we distinguish science from nonscience?
0.5 Steps of the Scientific Method
3.3b What are Kepler's 3 laws of motion?
3.3b What are Kepler's 3 laws of motion?
Quiz #2
4.4a What determines the strength of gravity?
L 4.4a What determines the strength of gravity?
R 4.4b How does Newton's law of gravity extend Kepler's Laws?
& 4.1b How is mass different from weight?
4.5a How do gravity & energy allow us to understand orbits?
L 5.3c How is energy stored in atoms?
L 5.2a What is light?
5.4c How does light tell us temperatures of planets, stars?
5.4c How does light tell us temperatures of planets, stars?
& 5.5a How does light tell us the speed of a distant object?
6.3b Why do we put telescopes in space?
S2.3b Do the effects predicted by relativity really occur?
Quiz #3
14.1b Why does the sun shine?
14.1c What is the Sun's structure?
14.3a What causes solar activity?
14.3c How does solar activity vary with time?
L 14.3a What causes solar activity?
15.2a What is the HR diagram?
15.1b How do we measure stellar temperatures?
15.1a How do we measure stellar luminosities?
L 15.1c How do we measure stellar masses?
Quiz #4
16.3b What is the greatest mass a newborn star can have?
16.3c What are the typical masses of newborn stars?
L 16.2a What slows the contraction of a star-forming cloud?
17.3b How do high-mass stars make the elements of life?
17.2a What are the life stages of a low-mass star?
17.3b How do high-mass stars make the elements of life?
15.2b What is the significance of the Main Sequence?
18.3a What is a black hole?
18.2a What is a neutron star?
18.1b What can happen to a white dwarf in a close binary?
Quiz #5
19.1c How did we learn the structure of the Milky Way?
19.1c How did we learn the structure of the Milky Way?
& 19.1a What does our galaxy look like?
19.3a What clues to our galaxy's history do halo stars hold?
19.2b Where do stars tend to form in our galaxy?
19.3b How did our galaxy form?
20.1b What are the 3 major types of galaxies?
20.3a How did Hubble prove galaxies lie far beyond the Milky Way?
21.2a Why do galaxies differ?
L 21 Galaxy Evolution
21.2a Why do galaxies differ?
Quiz #6
22.2b What is the evidence for dark matter in clusters?
22.2d What might dark matter be made of?
22.3b What are the largest structures in the universe?
23.1b What is the history of the universe in Big Bang Theory?
23.3a What aspects were unexplained in original Big Bang theory?
23.2a How do we observe the radiation from the Big Bang?
23.2b How do elemental abundances support Big Bang theory?
24.1b How did life arise on Earth?
L 24 Life in the Universe
L 24.1b How did life arise on Earth?
Final Exam Study Guide
0.4 Scientific Method
0.6 Pseudo-Science
& 3.5b Does astrology have any scientific validity?
0.3 The Real World
0.1 Natural Selection & Development of Mind
3.3a How did Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler challenge Earth-centered ideas?
3.3b What are Kepler's 3 laws of motion?
S3.3 A New View of Gravity
4.3b What keeps a planet rotating and orbiting the sun?
4.5b How does gravity cause tides?
& 4.4 The Universal Law of Gravitation
R 4.5b How does gravity cause tides?
5.4c How does light tell us temperatures of planets, stars?
5.2a What is light?
5.3c How is energy stored in atoms?
5.3b What are the phases of matter?
L 6.3a How does earth's atmosphere affect ground observations?
14.2b How does the energy from fusion get out of the sun?
14.2a How does nuclear fusion occur in the Sun?
14.2c How do we know what is happening inside the sun?
15.1c How do we measure stellar masses?
15.2b What is the significance of the Main Sequence?
L 15.2b What is the significance of the Main Sequence?
15.2b What is the significance of the Main Sequence?
16.1a Where do stars form?
16.3a What is the smallest mass a newborn star can have?
15.3b How do we measure the age of a star cluster?
L 17.2 Life as a low-mass star
17.2a What are the life stages of a low-mass star?
18.2b How were neutron stars discovered?
18.1 White Dwarfs
18.1b What can happen to a white dwarf in a close binary?
18.3b What would it be like to visit a black hole?
L 19 Our Galaxy
L 19.2b Where do stars tend to form in our galaxy?
19.3a What clues to our galaxy's history do halo stars hold?
19.1b How do stars orbit in our galaxy
20.2a How do we measure the distances to galaxies?
L 20.1 Islands of Stars
21.3a What are quasars?
20.1b What are the 3 major types of galaxies?
21.2a Why do galaxies differ?
& 20.1c How are galaxies grouped together?
21.3a What are quasars?
22.4b Is the expansion of the universe accelerating?
L 22.2d What might dark matter be made of?
L 22.3b What are the largest structures in the universe?
23.2a How do we observe the radiation from the Big Bang?
23.4a Why is the darkness of night evidence for the Big Bang?
23.2b How do elemental abundances support Big Bang theory?
& 23.2b How do elemental abundances support Big Bang theory?
L 24.4b How does SETI work?
L 24 Life in the Universe
24.1b How did life arise on Earth?