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

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




Question 2

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




Question 3

I see a very faint star. This could mean:




Question 4

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 5

Which of the following is a main-sequence star?




Question 6

Object A has mass 1 kg. Object B has mass 3 kg. According to E=mc2, how much rest energy does object B have compared to A?




Question 7

Which of the following stars is the least bright in the sky?




Question 8

Which of the following stars is the hottest?




Question 9

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




Question 10

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




Question 11

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




Question 12

A proton is made of...




Question 13

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




Question 14

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




Question 15

Which of the following is the longest?




Question 16

What happens in electron-positron annihilation?




Question 17

In the proton-proton chain, how many total hydrogen nuclei do we start with? (Remember that steps 1 and 2 happen twice in a full chain!)




Question 18

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




Question 19

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




Question 20

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




Question 21

Which of the following is a red dwarf?




Question 22

In an atom, the protons are located...




Question 23

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




Question 24

Which is the dominant process used in a star with 2.7 solar masses to generate light?




Question 25

A star is located on the bottom right of the H-R diagram. This star has...




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