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Astronomy session 2 test

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Question 1
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When light hits an atom, what is excited and jumps an energy level?

Question 2
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When light from a sun that passes through a thick atmosphere is split with a diffraction grating it appears to emit a

Question 3
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When hot dense materials like a tungstun filiment (in an incansecent lightbulb) is split with a diffraction grating it appears to emit a

Question 4
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Which has the least momentum?

Question 5
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Two objects have the same velocity, but one has twice the mass of the other. Compare the momentums of the two objects.

Question 6
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What is plasma in astronomy

Question 7
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explain the difference between fission and fusion

Question 8
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If an object like a star is moving towards the Earth, the spectral lines are observed to be

Question 9
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What is the difference between a mechanical wave and an electromagnetic wave?

Question 10
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When an astronomer looks at spectra from a star, they look at four different characteristics. Match the characteristic to what it means.

Question 11
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A wave along a string is a transverse wave. The fibers of the string move up and down. What moves along the string, perpendicular to the motion of the string?

Question 12
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A light shines red. In order to make the light shine blue you must

Question 13
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Before a rocket blasts off, the rocket is motionless and therefore has 0 momentum. When the rocket blasts off the rocket and the fuel are both moving, and therefore have momentum. How can momentum be conserved after a blast like that?

Question 14
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Explain why a cloud of a specific gas will emit only light at a specific wavelength but if you shine light through that same cloud, you will get a full spectrum _EXCEPT_ the lines at that specific wavelength.

Question 15
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Why does it seem like momentum is not conserved when a ball gains speed moving downhill?