Astronomy 1-13 Fall 2001
Quizzes
| Nov | 29 | Q13: | Work CAPA Set 5: Go to capa.gwu.edu; select "Get CAPA ID"; select Course "ast1f01p"; insert student number and prior CAPA ID; select set "5"; request ID; return to first CAPA page; select CAPA Courses; select "ast1f01p"; put in your 9-digit student number; put in your new CAPA. |
| Nov | 29 | Q13: | Work CAPA Set 4: Go to capa.gwu.edu; select "Get CAPA ID"; select Course "ast1f01p"; insert student number and prior CAPA ID; select set "4"; request ID; return to first CAPA page; select CAPA Courses; select "ast1f01p"; put in your 9-digit student number; put in your new CAPA. |
| Nov | 20 | Q12: | Find the best viewing time (UT and local time) for the Leonid shower November 17-18 near the town you were born. When will there be another Leonid storm there? |
| Nov | 4 | Q11: | Work CAPA Set 3: Go to capa.gwu.edu; select "Get CAPA ID"; select Course "ast1f01p"; insert student number and prior CAPA ID; select set "3"; request ID; return to first CAPA page; select CAPA Courses; select "ast1f01p"; put in your 9-digit student number; put in your new CAPA. |
| Nov | 1 | Q10: |
If you are nearsighted, find out where your see an image of a star (i.e. the distance of the image from your eyes) when wearing your glasses.
Otherwise, estimate (by calculation) the size of the image of the moon on the retina of your eye. |
| Oct | 23 | Q9: | If someone was able to see radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, ultraviolet waves, x-rays, and gamma rays, what would you look like in each of these ranges of frequencies of light? |
| Oct | 16 | Q8: | What is your height in units of the wavelength of microwaves with a frequency of 10.0 GigaHertz? If you can store one bit of information on each cycle of a light wave of wavelength 450 nanometers, how long would it take to send all the information in your brain (use 1015 bits) over a light beam to a distant receiver? |
| Oct | 2 | Q7: | Work CAPA Set 2: Go to capa.gwu.edu; select "Get CAPA ID"; select Course "ast1f01p"; insert student number and prior CAPA ID; select set "2"; request ID; return to first CAPA page; select CAPA Courses; select "ast1f01p"; put in your 9-digit student number; put in your new CAPA. |
| Sept | 24 | Q6: | Work CAPA Set 1: Go to capa.gwu.edu; select CAPA Courses; select ast1f01p; put in your 9-digit student number; put in your CAPA ID (sent to you via email). |
| Sept | 25 | Q5: | On the day you were born, what was the nearest star to zenith of magnitude greater than six over your home town at 12 midnight? (You can use the program Starry Night to answer.) |
| Sept | 18 | Q4: | In modern terms, what arguments are there for and against the geocentric view of the solar system verses the heliocentric view. |
| Sept | 10 | Q3: | How old are you in seconds? (Show how you found out.) |
| Sept | 6 | Q2: | Critique the statement: "Time may have stopped throughout the Universe and restarted." |
| Sept | 6 | Q1: | What would you like to know about the Universe? |