Additional test info

DON'T FORGET that you are allowed to use a full sheet of notes, front and back - anything you wish to write on it.

In addition to the quiz and homework topics, you may wish to review these ideas from recent classes:

Copernicus' heliocentric world view

Kepler's laws

Galileo and his telescopic discoveries

Optics - how they work

Longitude and latitude

International Date Line and Prime Meridian

Julian vs. Gregorian Calendar

Text references you may wish to review:

1.1, 1.3

2.1, 2.2

3.1, 3.2, 3.3

4.4, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10

5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6

The earlier concepts:

Epicycles
UT/GMT, daylight vs. standard time
Gregorian vs. Julian calendars
Angular measurement basics
EM spectrum questions
Blackbody radiation
Optics basics - see pictures
Apparent magnitude vs. absolute magnitude
Apparent magnitude scale

light-year, light-second, light-minute
speed of light
meter
second
kilogram
celestial sphere (and related points on it)
asterisms vs. constellations
analemma
declination and RA (right ascension) - how they compare to latitude and longitude
equinoxes and solstices
circumpolar stars
international date line
electromagnetic (EM) spectrum
speed = frequency x wavelength


Know:

the brightest objects in this evening's sky
a couple of asterisms
how to find north
some way to remember the speed of light
how the sequence of radiation on the EM spectrum "works"