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Unit 7: Light and Matter- The Sun Flashcards

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Why does a heated Iron poker glow?

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  • Emits photons of visible light
  • As the object heats up, it gets brighter, emitting more photons of all colors (wavelengths). Brightness (intensity of radiation) is the #of photons emitted per second increases
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What is the color of the brightest/ most intense wavelength?

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Shifts towards the violet end of the spectrum as the temperature increases.

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What is Blackbody Radiation?

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A theoretical or model body which absorbs all radiation falling on it, reflecting or transmitting none
- A blackbody absorbs and emits entire spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.

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Do photons with a shorter wavelength carry more or less energy than a photon with a linger wavelength?

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More

- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet (least to most energy)

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How are elements arranged on the Periodic Table of Elements?

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They are arranged in order of increasing number of protons (atomic number)

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How are the elements in each column related?

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They have similar chemical properties

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What are spectral lines and when do they occur?

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  • When an electron jumps from one energy level (or ‘Orbit’) to another
    (Absorption and Emission)
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What is a Spectroscope used for?

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To examine the wavelengths of light emitted from a source

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What are the steps of a spectroscope?

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  • Add a chemical substance to a flame
  • send light from the flame through a narrow slit then through lenses and a prism
  • Bright lines in the spectrum show the the substance emits light at specific wavelengths only
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What is the Absorption Spectrum for Hydrogen Gas?

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The line appears as dips in the intensity vs wavelength graph

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What is the Emission Spectrum for Hydrogen Gas?

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flat intensity at 0

with spikes in intensity as wavelengths increase

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What are the Two kinds of Glowing Gas Clouds?

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Hydrogen and Oxygen rich clouds

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What color are Hydrogen Rich Glowing clouds?

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These clouds glow red

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What color are Oxygen Rich Glowing clouds?

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These clouds glow green

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What is the Doppler Effect?

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The wavelength of light is slightly shifted when the source is traveling toward or away from the observer

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What are the two types of shifts seen in the Doppler Effect?

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Red and blue shifts

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What Is a red shift?

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When stars are moving away from us, The spectral lines are shifted to red

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What is a blue shift?

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When stars are moving toward us, the spectral lines shifted to blue

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The amount of the Doppler Effect shift increases with what?

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The amount of shift increases with the radial speed

20
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Explain the spectral lines of the star Vega?

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They are all shifted towards the blue side, which means Vega is moving towards our place at ~14km/s

21
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What is the proper motion of a star?

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The proper motion of a star is its motion perpendicular (right angle) to our line of sight across the celestial sphere. This is so small that it can only be measured for the closest stars

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What is the radial velocity of a star?

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The radial velocity of a star is its motion along our line of sight either toward or away from us, Thanks to the Doppler effect

23
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How far is the sun from the earth?

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1 AU or 1.496x10^8km

24
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What is the suns mass

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10^5 earth masses

25
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The combined mass of objects orbiting the sun is?

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0.15% of the sun’s mass

26
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The global gross capacity for the sun is

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3.4x10^11W

1 second for the sun= 35 million years for us

27
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What is the sun’s inner structure?

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Core
Radiative Zone
Convection Zone

28
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Describe the Sun’s Core

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The middle of the sun

The sun’s energy is released here by the fusion of hydrogen into helium

29
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Describe the Sun’s Radiative Zone

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So called as energy is transferred by means of radiation.

30
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Describe the Sun’s Convection Zone

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So called as energy is transferred by means of convection

31
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Describe the magnetic field of the sun

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160,000 km

100km/s

32
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What are Solar Flares

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Violent eruptions called solar flares eject huge amounts of solar gases into space.

33
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What does the word Photosphere mean and what is it?

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It is the deepest layer of the Sun you can see

- the word photosphere means light sphere

34
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What is the size of the suns photosphere

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500km thick

35
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What are sunspots and granules

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A granule is a convection cell in the Sun’s Photosphere

Sunspots are the darker spots, they are cooler than the earth surface

36
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The number of sunspots on the photosphere varies over an ________ year period?

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11 year cycle

37
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What is the Chromosphere and what does it mean?

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Colourful layer around the sun is called the chromosphere. It means “color sphere”

38
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How big is the chromosphere

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2000-3000 km thick

39
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What is a Corona?

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the suns atmosphere
- extremely dilute and hot
(looks like white light around the sun)

40
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When was the source of the suns energy understood

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20th C

41
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What is the temperature of the suns core?

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15.5MK

42
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What is the pressure of the suns core

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340Gbar

43
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What is the density of the suns core

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160 tons/ M^3

44
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What is the Hydrogen Fusion reaction equation

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4H = He= energy

The mass of 4 hydrogen atoms - 1 helium atom= mass lost

45
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How many tons of hydrogen get turned into helium in the suns core every second

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600 million metric tons

46
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How much hydrogen does the sun contain and how long will it last

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The sun contains enough hydrogen to continue to the present rate of energy output for another 5 billion years

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