Quiz 2

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Quiz 2

• Review

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• Test Day (Monday, February 13th, during class)
• The Quiz stars at 1240pm and lasts until 110pm
• Please do not show up at 1220pm, but do show up
  a few minutes early.
• Enter through the center two doors only!
• (Left handed people may come in through the door
  on the far left when facing the lecture hall).
• Please fill in every seat (starting from the
  front) skipping every third row.
• Will reserve left-handed desks for left-handed
  people and late comers.
• BRING PHOTO IDS!

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Format

• Closed book, no notes (no calculator allowed)
• Formulas provided
• No calculations, just understanding relations!
• 25 questions
• Mostly qualitative knowledge
• Conceptual knowledge
• What is covered? (what is fair game?)
• Power Point lecture notes
• Online Pre-quizzes
• In-class Activities
• Homework problems

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Formulas

• a F/m
• F G m1m2/r2
• c lf
• E hc/l
• E hf
• I sT4
• lmax 1/T

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Chapter 1

• Newtons Three Laws
• Mass vs. Weight
• Newtons Law of Universal Gravitation
• Circular Orbits
• Weightlessness

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Chapter 2

• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Wavelength
• Frequency
• Speed of Light
• Photons
• Temperature Scales
• Blackbody Radiation
• Stephan-Boltzmann Law
• Wiens Law
• Observing at Other Wavelengths

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Chapter 4

• Comparison between Terrestrial Jovian Planets
• Asteroids
• Locations
• Origin
• Comets
• Components
• Tails
• Coma
• Nucleus
• Composition
• Origin

• Oort Cloud
• Kuiper Belt
• Meteorites
• Meteor Showers
• Radioactive Dating
• Impacts
• Evidence
• Extinction of the Dinosaurs

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Chapter 5

• Regions of the Earth
• Tides
• Primeval Atmosphere
• Secondary Atmosphere
• Earths atmospheric layers
• Convection
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Ozone layer
• Earths interior layers
• P S waves

• Plate Tectonics
• Midocean Ridge
• Hot spots
• Magnetic fields
• Tidal coupling
• Cratering
• Maria/Highlands
• Relative Ages
• Absolute Ages
• Origin of the Moon