Stars Paper
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Stars Paper
Be familiar with :
- Ways to Measure astronomical distances
- nothing on test on specific observatories / satellites like Hubble but you should know that diff. frequencies provide diff. aspects of stars / galaxies
- sunspots – what they are; how long are the cycles
- Apparent vs Absolute Brightness
- what happens in the different layers of the Sun
- what the Hertzsprung- Russel Diagram is and
what it is showing & where key parts of star life cycles are on it (main sequence vs red giant vs white dwarf & ~ where our sun is )
- Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis
- how the size of stars (vs our sun mass) affects life cycle / what happens during its last part of "star life"
- the source of the elements (+ how was source of H, He different?)
& how linked to star size
- supernovas and neutron stars and pulsars and black holes
Cosmology
Know about:
- Curtis & Shapley debate – what each believed about size of universe and sun's location in our galaxy the Milky Way
- Edwin Hubble – what he learned about galaxies, red shifts and what Hubble law says
- understand Red and Blue Doppler shift and what each says about direction of motion
- George LeMaitre & his primal atom / big bang idea
-Fred Hoyle view of Universe – Steady state theory- what was it?
- evidence supporting Big Bang Theory
- what is Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) ?
- how are Robt. Dicke & Dave Wilkinson linked to CMB ?
- what about Arnold Penzias & Robt. Wilson of Bell Labs and CMB ?
- understand CMB = "surface of last scattering"
- know about quarks, electrons, protons, neutrons, & neutrinos
- why antimatter required "symmetry breaking"
- COBE results as tiny fluctuations in CBM temperature – why important to find ?
- Inflationary Theory – what does it say?
- formation of H & He from?
- know the order of splitting of original unified forces (which breaks out 1st, 2nd…)
- (skip galaxy structures / clusters / superclusters etc.)
- Dark Matter & Vera Rubin - what evidence did she find? Are there ideas of what it is?
- Dark Energy – what evidence ? Any ideas what it is ?
- % of Universe Dark Matter & Dark Energy and normal matter ?
Plate Tectonics know about:
- early Earth – planetesimal stage and great bombardment phase
- differentiation period and inner structure of Earth
- Difference between S & P waves
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