Astronomy Exam Guide: Chapters 10-18, Exams of Astronomy

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Study
Guide
 There
will
be
at
least
one
question
from
each
category
listed.
 Chapter
10:
 1. Helium
Flash
 2. Turn
off
point
and
age
of
a
star
cluster
 3. Supernova
types
(including
novas)
 4. Triple
alpha
process
(what
is
it?
when
does
it
occur?)
 5. How
giants
and
supergiants
are
made
 a. what
happens
in
the
interior
(i.e.
hydrogen
fusion
shells,
helium
 fusion
core,
etc)
 b. what
happens
to
the
exterior
(i.e.
cooler
or
hotter?
expand
or
 contract?)
 6. Planetary
nebula
 7. White
dwarfs
 a. Limiting
mass
(Chandrasekhar
limit)
 b. composition
 c. 
links
to
supernovas
and
novas
 
 Chapter
11:
 1. Wien’s
Law
 2. Pulsar
spin
rate
(like
homework
and
example
problem)
 3. Schwarzschild
radius
and
Event
horizon
 a. definition
and
calculation
 4. Neutron
Stars
 a. what
constitutes
a
Pulsar
 b. what
causes
spin
 c. size
 d. composition
and
density
 5. Effects
of
a
black
hole
(i.e.
time
dilation,
gravitational
redshift,
curved
 space‐time,
etc)
 6. X‐ray
binaries
(i.e.
what
causes
X‐rays)
 
 Chapter
13:
 1. Hubble
Law
 a. definition
 b. calculation
 2. Galaxy,
star
cluster,
and
nebula
types
 a. being
able
to
identify

 b. general
characteristics
of
 3. Cepheid
distances
(like
homework
and
lab)
 
 Chapter
15:
 1. Order
of
events
after
Big
Bang
 2. Reionization
 3. Recombination
 4. Inflation
 5. Where
does
the
Cosmic
Microwave
background
come
from
 6. Curvature
of
our
universe
 
 Chapter
16:
 1. What
constitutes
a
Terrestrial
planet
 2. What
constitutes
a
Jovian
planet
 3. Galilean
moons
(what
are
the
main
ones
and
which
planet
do
they
belong
 to?)
 4. Planet
formation