The final has 80 questions, 40 T/F and 40 multiple choice. Bring a green scantron form (882-ES) to class, and a pencil. You may bring a calculator, but won't really need it. You may bring 2 "cheat sheets": on letter sized sheets of paper (both sides). They must be handwritten by you. They should not have any typed, printed, or copied material on them (and will be taken if they do). Include any equations, numbers, facts, concepts, figures, examples you like. Write as small as you like. You can direct what you put on them by examining the content of the test below (not necessarily in order). The exam consists of 1/2 the "third midterm", and 1/2 review questions. It is designed to take 2 hours, but you have 3 (so time should not be a factor).

Contents of the Final Exam

True-False

dark matter in galactic halos
stellar content of spirals vs ellipticals
usefulness of radio astronomy for galactic mapping
interpretation of appearance of Milky Way
formation of elliptical galaxies
Pop II stars
location of globular clusters
distance scale (chain of logic)
quasar redshifts
content of irregular galaxies
source of Cosmic Background
curvature of Universe
location of supernova types in galaxies
meaning of Hubble constant
ratio of radiation to matter currently
conditions in early Big Bang
appearance of  Cosmic Background
frequency of planets

Newton's Third law
composition of asteroids
moon phase and solar time
circumpolar constellations
giant impacts in solar system
surface of Mars
E-M radiation and blackbodies
spectral appearance of stars
colors of nebulae
the ecliptic
light-gathering power of telescopes
solar corona
lifetimes of massive stars
CNO cycle
stellar convection and lifetimes
pressure in white and brown dwarfs
Chandrasekhar mass
location of pre-main sequence in HR diagram
finding ages of star clusters
 

Multiple Choice

distance determinations of distant objects
novae and supernovae
discovery of extragalactic distances
"zone of avoidance"
appearance of disks and bulges
rotation of spiral galaxies (measurement)
usefulness of radio astronomy for mapping
application of Hubble law (numerical)
stars in galactic halo
spectrum of HII regions
supermassive black holes
distant quasars
events near a black hole
explanation of microwave background
mass-to-light ratios in different environments
production of the elements
evidence for Big Bang
appearance of spiral arms
accretion disks (where found)

cause of the seasons
tidal locking of Moon
moon phase and sky location
setting of the Sun (seasonal)
Kepler's laws
death of stars
precession of Earth's axis
composition of planets (general)
sunspots
use of Kepler's laws for binary stars (numerical)
seasonal change of constellations
trigonometric parallax
L,T,R relation
range of stellar masses and luminosities
properties of the main sequence
death of the Sun
comparison of spectral types
Doppler detection of planets
inverse square law (numerical)
life in the Galaxy