Practice Test

Please solve the following questions. This is not a real exam, it will not be graded, and you do not need to submit your solutions to anyone. The questions are simply intended to help you practice for the real exam.

These questions will not appear in the exam itself. Students who don't genuinely attempt to solve the questions on their own, and only memorize the solutions, will have a very hard time in the actual exam!

This sample exam is online, but the real exam will be given in person, at a time and place indicated on the course website.

THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL EXAM!
THIS IS JUST A PRACTICE EXAM!
THE REAL EXAM IS IN PERSON!

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Question 1

Which of the following is the longest?




Question 2

I see a very faint star. This could mean:




Question 3

In an atom, the electrons are located...




Question 4

Star A has brighter absolute magnitude than star B. What does that say about the luminosity of the two stars?




Question 5

I found a hydrogen-9 isotope. How many neutrons does it have?




Question 6

Which of the following is a main-sequence star?




Question 7

A proton is made of...




Question 8

Compared to RR Lyrae variables, cepheid variables typically have...




Question 9

I want to measure the distance to a star that is estimated to be a few thousand light-years away. Which method should I use?




Question 10

A photon has a wavelength of 700 nm. What color is it?




Question 11

A star is located on the top left of the H-R diagram. This star has...




Question 12

Which of the following is a red dwarf?




Question 13

A star was measured to have a parallax of 0.25 arc seconds. How far away is the star?




Question 14

What kind of mass is defined as the strength of an object's gravitational field?




Question 15

In the proton-proton chain, how many total helium nuclei do we end up with?




Question 16

In the H-R diagram, red giants can be found...




Question 17

I observed an object, larger than Earth but smaller than the Sun, which generates light by deuterium fusion but not hydrogen fusion. What is it?




Question 18

Photon A has wavelength 1 cm. Photon B has wavelength 2 cm. Which photon has a higher frequency?




Question 19

What is nuclear fusion?




Question 20

Which of the following stars is the coolest?




Question 21

If a particle has charge +1, what would be the charge of its antiparticle?




Question 22

If the spectral lines of a star shift toward blue, this means...




Question 23

Object A has mass 1 kg. Object B has mass 9 kg. According to E=mc2, how much rest energy does object B have compared to A?




Question 24

Which of the following stars is the brightest in the sky?




Question 25

What happens in electron-positron annihilation?




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