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ASTRO 1 EXAM 1 PSU Actual Questions & Verified
Answers
1. How much more light does a 12 meter telescope collect than a 6 metertelescope?
Answer 4 times more
2. In the spectroscopy game, what did you do to produce emission lines in thespectrum?
Answer excite the gas in the box
3. What type of light does not get through earth's atmosphere?
Answer x-ray
4. is light a particle or a wave?
Answer both
5. if a telescope in space is only 1/4 the diameter of a telescope on earth, which of the
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following is true?
Answer the space telescope has a higher magnification than thelarger telescope on the ground
6. lower-energy radiation has
Answer longer wavelengths
7. from earth, which constellation might you find the planet saturn?
Answer taurus
8. two weeks after the 3rd quarter moon is the
Answer first quarter moon
9. for a star close to the north star, how long does it take to move in a circlethe whole
way around the north star?
Answer 24 hours
10. An electron in a sodium atom absorbs a photon of light and moves to thenext highest
energy level, what will happen?
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ASTRO 1 EXAM 1 PSU Actual Questions & Verified
Answers
1. How much more light does a 12 meter telescope collect than a 6 metertelescope?
Answer 4 times more
2. In the spectroscopy game, what did you do to produce emission lines in thespectrum?
Answer excite the gas in the box
3. What type of light does not get through earth's atmosphere?
Answer x-ray
4. is light a particle or a wave?
Answer both
5. if a telescope in space is only 1/4 the diameter of a telescope on earth, which of the
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,Astro 1 Exam 1 PSU.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/dddd/Astro%201%20Exam%201%20PSU
following is true?
Answer the space telescope has a higher magnification than thelarger telescope on the ground
6. lower-energy radiation has
Answer longer wavelengths
7. from earth, which constellation might you find the planet saturn?
Answer taurus
8. two weeks after the 3rd quarter moon is the
Answer first quarter moon
9. for a star close to the north star, how long does it take to move in a circlethe whole
way around the north star?
Answer 24 hours
10. An electron in a sodium atom absorbs a photon of light and moves to thenext highest
energy level, what will happen?
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