Monday, December 9, 2002
2:00 – 3:45 p.m.
Regener Lecture Hall
Chapters 14 –
18
Multiple Choice
What
is a galaxy?,
Parts
of the Milky Way:
Galactic
disk
Galactic
bulge
Galactic
halo
Galactic
center,
Variable
stars,
Pulsating
variable stars:
RR
Lyrae & Cepheids,
Period-Luminosity
Relationship,
Properties
of stars in halo,
Properties
of stars in disk,
Spiral
arms & spiral density waves,
Self-propagating
star formation,
Galactic
rotation curve,
Dark
halo,
Dark
matter
Hubble
classification scheme,
Spiral
galaxies & their properties,
Barred-spiral
galaxies & their properties,
Elliptical
galaxies & their properties,
Irregular
galaxies & their properties,
Standard
candles,
Tully-Fisher
relation,
What
are galaxy clusters & Superclusters?
What
are voids?
Collisions
and mergers and acquisitions,
Hubble’s
Law,
Cosmological
Redshift
Model
of radio galaxies,
Theory
of energy source of active galaxies,
Synchrotron
radiation,
Quasars
or QSOs & their properties,
Theory
of galaxy evolution,
Gravitational
Lensing
Properties
of the Universe,
What
is cosmology?
Cosmological
Principle,
Olber’s
Paradox,
Theory
of the Big Bang,
Critical
density & its role in cosmology,
Effects
of the cosmological constant,
Closed
Universe,
Open
Universe,
Critical
Universe,
Cosmic
background radiation,
Matter-dominated
vs radiation-dominated times,
Primordial
nucleosynthesis,
Grand
Unified Theories:
Inflation,
Horizon
problem,
Flatness
problem
Evolution
of life:
Nucleotide
bases
Complex
molecules,
The
Drake equation
Strategies
for finding technological life:
The
water hole