Final Flashcards

(34 cards)

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most associated with the ancient Greek world view (geocentric universe)

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Aristotle

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rejected the geocentric world view

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Aristarchus

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3
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accurately determined the size of the earth

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Eratasthones

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4
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wrote Almgest

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Ptolemy

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5
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it explained astronomical movements better and was simpler than the geocentric model

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Heliocentric model

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6
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held the heliocentric worldview

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Copernicus

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last astronomer without a telescope; provided Kepler with the data needed in order to develop his three laws of motion

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Tycho Brahe

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8
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Three Laws of Motion; his laws don’t qualify as modern astronomical discoveries because they are descriptive only and don’t take gravity into account

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J. Kepler

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9
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the shape of the orbit of the planets is an ellipse and the Sun isn’t in the center, but at a foci of the ellipse orbit; the orbit of the earth and other planets (some are more dramatically elliptical than others) is just slightly off form being a circle, so his measurements had to be very precise - this is very impressive

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Law of Ellipses

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10
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he closer the planet is to the sun in its orbit, the faster it is moving; states that an imaginary line between a planet and the sun sweeps out an area as the planet orbits such that if 3 time intervals are shown are of equal length, then the areas A, B, and C will be equal

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the Law of Equal Areas

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he farther out the orbit is, the longer it takes for the planet to orbit; to find the orbit time use p^2 = a^3 where p is years and a is astronomical units

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The Third Law

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used a telescope and challenged the conventional wisdom of the motion of objects and the nature of the heavens; his telescope observations are: the Phases of Venus, the moons of Jupiter, sunspots, and mountains on the moon

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Galileo

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13
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three laws of motion and the law of universal gravity

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Newton

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14
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a body at rest or moving in a straight line at a constant velocity will continue in that manner unless acted by a net outside force

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Newton’s First Law

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F = mass x acceleration; acceleration is change in velocity; change in velocity = either speed up or slow down in the same direction or change direction

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Newton’s Second Law

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Law of Reciprocal Actions; for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction; if you push on something, it will push on you

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Newton’s Third Law

17
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F = G x M1 x M2/ r^2 the force that holds us on the earth holds the earth in its orbit; if you combine this with newton’s second law, you can derive Kepler’s laws of motion for planets

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Newton’s Universal Law of Gravity

18
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light has wave-like properties (wavelength, frequency); when light is traveling, think of a wave, but when it is absorbed, think about it as particles

  • visible light is a section of the electromagnetic wave spectrum
  • frequency x wavelength = velocity of light
  • wavelength - crest to crest or trough to trough
  • frequency - wavelength/second
  • Wavelengths (from long to short) - radio, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, gamma-ray
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Wave Nature of Light

19
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a perfect emitter and absorber of electromagnetic radiation

  • it produces/emits light because of its temperature
  • a cave is a good absorber of light
20
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apply ideally to a blackbody; the color changes as a blackbody gets hotter; cooler the temperature the longer the wavelength (red is cooler, blue is hotter)

  • ex of a question: Star A - the wavelength of peak intensity is shorter than Star B, so Star A is hotter
  • ex: Star A is blue, star B is red, star A is hotter (blue is hotter than red)
  • shorter wavelength is hotter, shorter wavelength is blue
21
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light gets brighter as it gets hotter; the hotter it is, the brighter it is; the hotter the object, the shorter the wavelength of peak intensity is

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Stefan-Boltzman Law

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rainbow; all colors are shown

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Continuous Spectrum

23
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certain wavelengths are bright, but in between them there is virtually no light

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emission spectrum

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rainbow, but has some wavelengths blacked out because there is no light

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absorption spectrum

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another feature of waves (has to do with the relative motion of the objects); the amount of increase in the pitch as it comes toward you is a measure of how fast its coming toward you - when light is coming toward you, it is blue shifted, and it’s red shifted as it goes away from you - you learn the radial velocity of an object because of this
Doppler Effect
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hydrogen fusing to helium
main sequence
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no fusion is happening (once all hydrogen is helium); the core is collapsing and heating, but the outer layer is expanding and glowing bright
Red Giant
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when the helium core starts fusing to carbon
helium flash
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helium is fusing to carbon
horizontal branch
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no fusion in the core
asymptotic giant branch
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star explodes
planetary nebula
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just the core is left behind, and it's cooling off
White Dwarf
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less than 8 to 10 solar masses; when it explodes (planetary nebula) it becomes a white dwarf
low mass star
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greater than 8 to 10 solar masses; when it explodes (supernova type II) it becomes either a neutron star or a black hole
high mass star