AST3043 Exam III
AST3043 University of Florida Exam III
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- the first accurate pendulum clock was invented by
- Christiaan Huygens
- which of the following is not a possible orbit in the gravitational two-body problem?
- figure-eight or hippopede
- the regression of the moon's nodes is caused by
- the sun's tidal forces trying to pull its orbit plane into the ecliptic plane (plane of earth's orbit)
- the first scientific research journal was the
- journal des savants, france
- the work that summarized the advances in celestial mechanics over the course of the eighteenth century was
- Laplace's Treatise on Celestial Mechanics
- the earth's precession is caused by
- the tidal forces of the sun and moon trying to pull the earth's equatorial buldge into alignment with the ecliptic plane
- the approximate date of newton's principia is
- 1690
- which of the following is not an advantage of the keplerian or astronomical refractor over the Galilen refractor?
- an erect (upright) image
- the work in which kepler presented the first two of his laws of planetary motion for the case of mars was
- new astronomy
- the tides that occur when the moon is at the quarter phases (first and third/last) are the ones called
- neap tides
- the champion of instruments with telescopic sights for measuring positions against those who claimed that naked-eye instruments were more accurate was
- Hooke
- which of the following was an advantage the Galilean refractor had over the Keplerian or astronomical refractor?
- erect (rightside-up) image
- Roemer measured which equatorial coordinate using a sidereal pendulum clock?
- right ascension
- which of the following was not part of francis bacon's program for 'experimental philosophy'?
- deductive method
- as a result of the letter to the grand duchess christina and galileo's travel to rome,
- on the revolutions was banned by the catholic church until it could be 'corrected' and galileo was warned not to defend the copernican theory
- the speed of light was first determined by
- olaus roemer
- the first proof that the earth goes around the sun was
- the discovery of the aberration of starlight
- newton's first law of motion states that in the absence of a net external force a body moves with
- constant velocity
- the 'aerial' telescope designed by christiaan Huygens consisted of
- an objective lens and eyepiece lens connected by a rope with no tube
- which of the following telescopic discoveries by Galileo was not first reported in his book The Starry Messenger?
- the fact that venus goes through all the phases that the moon does
- newton's version of kepler's third law is important because it allows the determination of
- the sum of the masses of the two bodies
- the critical speed for a body to escape another body's gravity is termed the
- parabolic or escape velocity
- in the principia newton used which method?
- a combination of inductive and deductive methods
- according to newton's second law of motion, if two bodies having different masses are acted on by the same amount of force,
- the less massive will have the greater acceleration
- with the transit telescope as developed by Roemer, a star's right ascension is measured
- on an accurate clock that keeps sidereal time when the star transits the celestial meridian
- if the earth is prolate, the length of a degree of latitude
- decreases as one goes from the equator to the pole
- the use of instruments without telescopic sights for positional measurements was championed by
- Havelius
- newton showed that white light is split up by a glass prism into the colors of the rainbow. Because the different colors are bent to different degrees by the glass, his result explained the colored fringes around images formed by refractors in what is knowns as
- chromatic aberration
- the method of studying nature by observation and experimentaion in order to infer broad general principles was championed by
- francis bacon
- newton's explanation of the tides was that they are caused by
- differences between the gravitational acceleration due to the moon (and sun) at various points and the acceleration of the earth as a whole
- Newton's methodology in his Principia was based on
- a combination of the inductive and deductive methods
- Which statement is true?
- Copernicus placed the Sun more or less at the center of the Universe
- titan, saturn's largest moon, was discovered by
- christiaan huygens
- in his original correspondence with Kepler in 1597, Galileo wrote that he
- was a Copernican but chose not to go public because he didn't wish to be bothered about it
- the earth's precession is caused by
- the sun's and moon's tidal forces trying to pull the earth's equatorial buldge into the ecliptic plane
- in the general sense used in the course, as contrasted to everyday language, the term acceleration means
- the rate at which an object's velocity is changing, both its amount and its direction
- the planet uranus was discovered by
- William Heschel
- which of the following is an advantage of the galilean refractor over the keplerian (astronomical) refractor?
- upright image instead of inverted
- the tychonic theory of the solar system had
- all the planets except earth going around the sun, which goes around the earth
- the approximate date of newton was
- 1690
- the return of halley's comet was successfully predicted using newton's theory of gravitation by
- Clairaut and Madame Lepaute
- which of the following is a characteristic of the Galilean but not the astronomical or Keplerian refractor?
- the iamge is upright, not inverted
- Kepler's second law of planetary motion says that
- an imaginary sun-planet line sweeps out equal areas in equal time intervals
- the speed of light was first successfully measured
- by roemer using timings of eclipses of jupiter's moons
- the gravitational force
- is proportional to the inverse square of the distance and thus has infinite range
- who of the following was an advocate of the deductive method?
- descartes
- the kind of aberration in which rays that come in at an oblique angle to the central axis of a paraboloidal mirror are focused in a comma-or teardrop-shaped region at the edge of the field of view is
- coma
- kepler's account of his 'war' with mars and his discovery of what would be his first two laws of planetary motion is in his book
- astronomia nova (New Astronomy)
- the first scientific society (dealing with 'natural philosophy') was the
- accademia dei lincei
- which of the following is a possible form of the orbits in the gravitational two-body problem not found by Kepler?
- hyperbola
- the prediction of the return of halley's comet based on newton's gravitational theory, which confirmed the theory in addition to disproving Descartes' idea about comets, was made by
- Clairaut and Lepaute
- the largest satellite of saturn, titan, was discovered by
- Hyugens
- on a prolate earth a degree of latitude is
- a larger distance near the equator than near the poles
- according to newton's first law of motion, an object moving with constant velocity is being acted upon by
- no net external force
- the method used by descartes in constructing his philosophical system, going from general principles which he considered beyond any doubt to specific consequences using reason, is what is termed the
- deductive method
- the first evidence that the earth revolves around the sun came with the discovery of the aberration of starlight in 1728 by
- james bradley
- the approximate date of newton's principia was
- 1690
- which of the following is an advantage of the keplerian or astronomical refractor over the galilean refractor?
- larger field of view
- the research journal published by the royal society of london is
- philosophical transactions
- according to the law of univesal gravitation, the gravitational force between two bodies is proportional to
- the product of their masses m_A times m_B
- with the transit telescope, a star's declination is found by
- calculation from its measured altitude, correcting for the observer's latitude
- The advocate of the inductive method in natural philosophy was
- Francis Bacon
- which of the following discoveries with the telescope was not reported in Galileo's little book Starry Messenger?
- Venus has the same phases as the moon
- the first determination of the speed of light was by
- Roemer using eclipses of Jupiter's moons
- which of galileo's discoveries with the telescope is more an argument against Aristotle than it is an argument against Ptolemy?
- the moon's surface is rough, with craters and mountains
- The Epitome of Ptolemaic astronomy was a collaboration between Georg Peurbach and
- Regiomontanus (Johannes Mueller)
- galileo's dialogue on the two great world systems was actually a discussion and comparison of the 'systems' of
- aristotle and copernicus
- 'experimental philosophy' and the inductive method, reasoning from specific observations and/or experiments to general principles, were promoted as a new approach to understanding nature by
- bacon
- the astronomical or keplerian refractor has the advantage over the Galilean refractor in which of the following respects?
- a real image, which can be viewed simultaneously with wires at the focus, as with crosshairs
- venus goes through all the phases that the moon does, which proves that
- the ptolemaic system is wrong
- according to newton's second law of motion, if two bodies having different masses are acted upon by identical forces
- the less massive one will have a greater acceleration
- the type of reflector which has a concave primary mirror and a flat secondary mirror at the front that reflect light to a focus at the side is the
- newtonian
- Tycho Brahe introduced the use of transversals (zigzag patterns of dots) on angular scales in order to
- increase the precision of the measurement
- Galileo's real opponent in his dialogue on the two great world systems was
- aristotle and his dynamics
- in its final form, kepler's second law of planetary motion states that for any given planet
- the imaginary line from the sun to the planet sweeps out equal areas in equal time intervals
- in his principia newton determined the masses of jupiter and saturn using his version of kepler's
- third or harmonic law
- the repeated return of halley's comet disproved whose theory of comets?
- descartes
- the largest moon of saturn, titan, was discovered by
- Huygens
- the reflector having a solid primary mirror (i.e., no hole in the center) and a flat secondary mirror that reflects light to the side is the
- newtonian reflector
- galileo first challenged the roman catholic church to take a position on the relation of copernicus' ideas to church doctrine by writing his
- letter to the grand duchess christina
- the newtonian reflector has a
- solid primary mirror and a flat secondary mirror that reflects light to a focus out to the side
- expeditions were sent out from france and england to observe the venus transits of 1761 and 1769 in order to determine
- the length of the astronomical unit (through solar parallax)
- the planet neptune was discovered by
- Galle and d'Arrest
- the first scientific research journal was the
- journal des savants in france
- the definition of acceleration is
- rate at which velocity changes
- Huygen's 'aerial' telescope and Hevelius' 150-foot telescope were made very long in order to
- minimize the chromatic and spherical aberrations
- according to newton's law of universal gravitation, the force of gravity
- gets smaller and smaller as the distance is increased but never disappears
- the reflector made by newton had
- a concave primary mirror and a smaller flat mirror at the front which reflects light to a focus on the side
- the return of Halley's comet disproved whose theory of comets?
- Descartes
- the type of reflector having a fairly strongly curved paraboloidal primary mirror with a hole in the center and a convex secondary mirror that reflects the light to the back through the hole is the
- cassegrain reflector
- the earth's oblateness is caused by
- the centrifugal 'force' due to its rotation
- according to newton's laws of motion, an object not being acted on by any external force moves with
- constant velocity
- the copernican theory was officially declared to be heresy by the roman catholic church
- in 1633, as a result of galileo's trial resulting from his publication of the dialogues on the two great world systems
- which of the following is not a possible orbit form in the gravitational two body problem?
- figure eight
- the first planetary tables based on an essentially correct description of the planets' orbits were the
- Rudolphine Tables
- Transversals, the zig-zag patterns of dots such as those on his mural quadrant, were used by Tycho to
- increase the precision of angular measurement
- in the gravitational two-body problem, which of the following is not a form for a bound orbit?
- hyperbola
- the first set of planetary tables to be based upon an essentially correct description of the planetary orbits was the
- Rudolphine Tables
- the failure of a lens to focus rays of light of different colors at the same point is called
- chromatic aberration
- the first european to map the stars of the southern hemisphere was
- halley
- newton's version of kepler's third law (harmonic law) is very important in astronomy because it can be used to estimate
- masses of bodies
- the definition of acceleration that we have used in discussing newton's dynamics is
- the rate at which the velocity changes
- the tidal acceleration caused by the moon at the point on the earth midway between the nearest point and the farthest point (hint: draw a diagram)
- is directed inwards, towards the earth's center
- The Treatise on the Sphere was
- Sacrobosco's basic textbook on the celestial sphere (John of Holywood)
- the mechanical clock was made into a precision instrument useful in astronomy when the first successful pendulum clock was built by
- Christiaan Huygens
- the failure of a refractor to bring all colors of light to a focus at the same distance from the objective lens is called
- chromatic aberration
- the first accurate pendulum clock was built by
- Christiaan Huygens
- a special emphasis was placed on the practical application of scientific knowledge by
- francis bacon
- transversals were introduced into astronomy by tycho brahe
- to measure very small angles more precisely
- the instrument used for correcting the altitude of polaris to find one's latitude as well as for telling time at night was the
- nocturnal
- at his trial in 1633, Galileo's sentence was
- house arrest for life, recitation of a penitential psalm once a week, and prohibition on publication
- the 'great inequality' an irregularity in the motions of jupiter and saturn, was satisfactorily explained within newtonian theory as a resonance affect by
- laplace
- Besides changing the title of Copernicus' book, what did Andreas Osiander, who oversaw its publication, do to deflect criticism by Protestants?
- added an unsigned preface saying that the heliocentric model was not intented to be a true picture but only useful for calculations
- a controversy about the use of telescopes in measuring star positions accurately arose between robert hooke and
- johannes hevelius
- the 'great inequality' was explained as a resonance effect by
- pierre simon de laplace
- the outcome of galileo's trip to rome in 1616, after publication of his letter to the grand duchess christina, to sell the roman catholic church on the copernican theory was the
- the theory was condemned by the church as 'philosophically absurd and erroneous,' and Galileo was instructed not to hold or to defend it, confirmed in writing by cardinal bellarmino
- the approximate date of Isaac Newton is
- 1690
- the idea that there are infinitely many planetary systems and many planets with living beings was suggested by
- Giordano Bruno
- the reflector that has a paraboloidal primary mirror with a hole in the center and convex secondary mirror reflecting the light to the back is the
- Cassegrain reflector
- the failure of a spherical lens or mirror to bring rays at different distances from the central axis to the same focus is called
- spherical aberration
- according to newton's first law of motion, an object which is not acted on by any external force
- moves with constant velocity
- the critical speed for an object to go into earth orbit is termed the earth's
- circular or orbital velocity
- which of the following is not a bound orbit in the gravitational two-body problem?
- parabola
- newton's claim of the earth's being oblate was first confirmed, though not very accurately, by
- Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland
- newton's methodology in principia was
- combination of inductive and deductive
- titan, the largest moon of saturn, was discovered by
- christiaan huygens
- the earth's oblateness, namely its being broader across the equator than from pole to pole, was predicted by newton because
- it is rotating, and the centrifugal 'force' opposing earth's gravity is greatest at the equtor
- the surface gravity of a planet is greater when
- the planet's radius is smaller
- the fact that the gravitational force depends on the inverse square of the distance between two bodies implies that its range is
- infinite
- descartes' theory that comets are one-time visitors to the solar system was convincingly disproved when the return of Halley's comet was accurately predicted by
- Clairaut and Madame Lapaute
- galileo's discourses on two new sciences showed in the law of falling bodies that the language of dynamics would be
- mathematics
- the problem of different colors being brought to a focus at different points with the refractor, which led to the creation of the reflector, is called
- chromatic aberration
- the idea of an infinite universe with countless inhabited planets originated with
- giordano bruno
- the first lunar theory that was good enough to be used for finding longitude was
- Tobias Mayer's semiempirical theory
- the corret shape of the earth, though with an inaccurate value for the oblateness, was first found using measurements made by the expedition led by
- maupertuis
- Galileo's book which led to his trial before the Inquisition, in which he defended the Copernican theory a little too effectively, was
- Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems
- the approximate date of newton's principia (fist edition) is
- 1690
- with the transit telescope, right ascension is determined
- by observing the time of transit with a clock keeping sidereal time
- According to Kepler's Second Law (Law of Areas), a given planet moves fastest in its orbit at
- perihelion
- the tides that occur when the sun, earth, and moon are at syzygy (along a straight line), so that their tidal forces are reinforcing each other, are called
- spring tides
- Roemer introduced the transit telescope to the measurement of a star's equatorial coordinates. The right ascension is measure
- as the time on a sidereal clock (based on the sidereal day, not ordinary day) at the instant the star crosses the celestial meridian
- according to newton's law of universal gravitation the gravitational force depends on the
- product of the masses of the two bodies
- the title of newton's greatest work, philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, is translated as
- mathematical principles of natural philosophy
- the person who was most responsible for the publication of newton's principia (other than newton himself) was
- Halley
- titan, the large moon of saturn, was discovered by
- Christiaan Huygens
- the real importance of tycho brahe's position measurements of planets was that
- for the first time the data were sufficiently accurate that the planet's orbital motions could be worked out
- newton's version of kepler's third (harmonic) law, is very important mainly because it is used to
- estimate masses of stars and galaxies
- the university professors who were aristotelians were most upset by galileo's telescopic observation that showed
- craters and mountains on the moon
- galileo's discovery that venus goes through all the phases that the moon does
- disproved the ptolemaic theory
- by demonstrating that white light is dispersed by a glass prism into the colors of the rainbow, newton provided an explanation of
- chromatic aberration
- the publication cost of newton's principia was paid mainly by
- newton's friend halley
- the phenomenon that results when the tidal forces of the sun try to pull the moon's orbit plane into alignment with the ecliptic plane is
- regression
- the methodology used by Newton in his principia was
- a combination of inductive and deductive
- the phenomenon that results from the tidal forces due to the sun and moon trying to pull the earth's equatorial bulge into the ecliptic plane is the one called
- precession
- Kepler's work in which he first 'explained' the planets' distances from the Sun using the regular solids (cube, tetrahedron, etc.) was
- Cosmographic Mystery
- the first reasonably accurate measurement of the earth's oblateness came from the expedition of
- Bouguer and La Condamine to Peru
- the earth's oblateness is caused by
- centrifugal force arising from its rotation
- the fact that stars shift their positions on the celestial sphere (i.e., proper motion) because of their own space motion and not just precession or parallax was discovered by
- Edmond Halley
- the return of Halley's Comet in 1759 was accurately predicted (with an error estimate, no less) by
- Clairaut and Mme Lepaute
- in the gravitational two-body problem, which of the following shape is not possible, at least in principle, for the orbits?
- figure-eight, like the hippopede
- the lunar tidal force at a point on the earth's surface midway between the side facing the moon and the side facing away from the moon acts
- inwards, toward earth's center
- Philosophers in the medieval European universities believed that the correct model of the cosmos was that of
- Aristotle
- Galileo made the serious tactical error of placing Pope Urban VIII's pet argument against the Copernican theory in the mouth of the Aristotelian in his Dialogue on the Two Great world systems, a character named
- Simplicio, after the commentator on Aristotle
- newton showed that kepler's second law (law of areas) is a geometric expression of the physical principle of conservation of
- angular momentum
- which of the following scientific societies was formed first?
- accademia dei lincei
- the first research journal published by a scientific society was
- journal des savants
- the Cassegrain type of reflector has
- a paraboloidal primary mirror with a hole in the center, a convex secondary mirror, and a focus behind the primary
- the paris observatory was founded by
- G. D. Cassini = Cassini I
- the reason why the venus transits of 1761 and 1769 didn't give as accurate a value for the astronomical unit as Halley had predicted was because
- the 'black drop' effect made timing the transit extremely tricky
- the weaker tides that occur when the moon is at the quarter phases (first and third or last) are called
- neap tides
- which of the following discoveries with the telescope was not announced in Galileo's Starry Messenger?
- saturn is in triple form (looked weird)
- which of the following was the advocate of the inductive method in natural philosophy?
- bacon
- Galileo's discovery that Venus goes through all the phases that the Moon does
- proved that the Ptolemaic model was wrong
- How did Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's four large moons support the Copernican theory? (best argument)
- It showed that moons could orbit something that was itself moving without being left behind, countering one argument against Earth's motion.
- the main advantage of the galilean refractor over the keplerian or astronomical refractor is
- it gives an upright image instead of an inverted (upside-down) one
- the expedition whose measurements gave the first accurate measurement of the earth's oblateness was led by
- Bouguer and La Condamine
- the approximate date of Johannes Kepler is
- 1620
- the fact that light moves at finite speed was first established by
- Roemer
- jupiter's mass is approximately 0.001 that the sun. the center of mass of the Sun-Jupiter system (considering just those two) is located
- very near the Sun's center
- the approximate date of newton is
- 1690
- if two bodies have the same mass but one is half as large (in radius) as the other, the surface gravity will be
- greater on the smaller body
- the second astronomer royal was
- halley
- the earth's rotation and the centrifugal force associated with it cause the earth's shape to be
- oblate, i.e. larger through the equator than through the poles
- the first determination that the earth is actually oblate was based on data obtained by
- Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland
- the tidal force due to the moon at a point on the earth's surface midway between the points closest to and farthest from the moon is in which direction?
- towards the center of the earth
- Tycho Brahe was by birth a
- Danish nobleman
- the type of reflector having a paraboloidal primary mirror and a flat secondary mirror reflecting the light to a focus out to the side near the front is the
- newtonian
- Copernicus's dissatisfaction with the ptolemaic theory was primarily because
- ptolemy hadn't strictly followed his own basic assumptions
- kepler's work in which he first put forward the idea that the distances of the planets from the sun can be obtained by fitting the regular solids (cube, tetrahedron, etc.) inside each other was the
- Cosmographic Mystery
- Tycho Brahe was a
- Danish nobleman
- according to the law of universal gravitation, the attractive force
- inversely proportional to the square of the distance
- the largest gap in saturn's ring system was discovered by
- G. D. Cassini (Cassini I)
- the founder of the royal greenwich observatory and first astronomer royal was
- john flamsteed
- Tycho Brahe showed the 'new star' of 1572 to contradict Aristotle by
- demonstrating that it had no measurable geocentric parallax
- the so-called 'great inequality' is
- a near-resonance between jupiter and saturn
- tycho brahe's measurement of the 'new star' of 1572 showed that, in defiance of Aristotle, it was
- much farther away than the moon, almost as far as the fixed stars
- the most accurate measurement of star positions made without benefit of telescopic sights were those of
- Johannes Hevelius
- the advantage of the reflector over the refractor is that
- it has no chromatic or spherical aberration
- according to newton's first law of motion, an object not being acted upon by an external force moves with
- constant velocity
- the organization that formally (if not financially) sponsored newton's principia and indirectly led to its being written was
- the royal society of london
- the first known scientific society was the
- academia dei lincei in italy
- according to newton's second law of motion, the acceleration of an object for a given force is
- inversely proportional to its mass
- the planetary tables directly based on copernicus' work were the
- prutenic tables
- Tycho Brahe was
- a Danish aristocrat
- the earth's oblateness is the result of
- centrifugal 'force'
- the 'aerial' telescope, with only a rope between the objective lens and the eyepiece lens, was devised by
- christiaan huygens
- the 'aerial' telescope invented by Huygens took its name from the fact that
- it had no tube or supporting frame between the objective and the eyepiece
- the first four medium-sized moons of saturn were found by
- G. D. Cassini = Cassini I
- the pendulum clock was made into a precision instrument that could be used in astronomy by
- Huygens
- newton's version of kepler's harmonic law (third law) is extremely important in astronomy because it enables the determination of
- masses of many stars and galaxies
- Which of the characters in Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems presented Pope Urban VIII's argument at the end?
- Simplicio
- copernicus' model had the earth's orbit centered on
- the mean sun, which revolved around the real sun
- The idea that comets are burnt-out stars passing from one vortex to another and can only pass through the Solar System one was due to
- Rene Descartes
- the first determination that the earth is oblate rather than prolate, as newton and huygens had predicted, was that of
- maupertuis and the lapland expedition
- according to Kepler's first law of planetary motion, the orbits of the planets are
- ellipses with the sun at one focus and nothing at the other
- the aberration in which light rays of different colors are brought to a focus at different distances from the objective lens is called
- chromatic aberration
- the plenum was
- descartes's idea of a universe that is nowhere empty
- the earth's precession is caused by
- the tidal forces of sun and moon trying to pull its equatorial bulge into the ecliptic plane
- conservation of angular momentum in the gravitational two-body problem causes the orbital speed to be greatest
- when the distance from the center is smallest
- after having been ordered in 1616 not to teach the copernican theory, why did galileo think it was safe to write the dialogue on the two great world systems?
- his friend cardinal barberini was elected pope
- the method used by newton in his principia was
- a combination of the inductive and deductive methods
- what we call 'surface gravity' is actually
- the acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface, caused by the earth's gravitational force
- which of galileo's works was his first challenge to the theologians regarding copernicus and the interpretation of scripture?
- letter to the grand duchess christina
- according to newton's first law of motion, the natural state of motion of a moving body (i.e., in the absense of any external force) is one of constant
- velocity
- In Tycho's theory of the solar system,
- the sun and moon orbit the earth, while the remaining planets orbit the sun
- in its emphasis on experimentation, practical application of 'natural philosophy' (science), and organized research, the royal society clearly drew much of its inspiration from
- francis bacon
- the first fairly successful lunar theory for the purpose of navigation was
- tobias mayer's semiempirical theory
- the first research journal was
- journal des savants
- the innovation introduced by Tycho Brahe that improved the accuracy of measurements with the astronomical sextant was
- turning it around so that two observers could use it simultaneously rather than one
- the gravitational force depends on the
- product of the masses of the two bodies
- the shape of an elliptical orbit is specified by its
- eccentricity
- the approximate date of newton is
- 1690
- there were two occasions when Kepler corresponded with his great contemporary Galileo, in a very one-sided correspondence. On was when Galileo's book Sidereus nuncius (Starry Messenger) was being criticized. The other was
- after Kepler sent Galileo a copy of his book Mysterium cosmographicum (Cosmographic Mystery)
- Kepler's law of areas (second law) is a geometric statement of which physical law which applies?
- conservation of angular momentum
- the tidal force due to the moon at the point on the earth directly beneath the moon is in the direction
- towards the moon
- the speed of light was first measured using observations of eclipses of Jupiter's satellites by
- Roemer
- which of the following is an advantage of the astronomical (keplerian) refractor over the galilean refractor?
- compactness (everything else being the same)
- the earth's shape is primarily
- oblate, because of its rotation
- Galileo's first discoveries with the telescope were reported in his book
- Starry Messenger
- in his little book on the new star about the star of 1572, Tycho showed that
- its geocentric parallax was too small to measure; therefore it was at least as far away as the moon, thus contradicting Aristotle
- the first scientific society seems to have been the
- accademia dei lincei (academy of the lynx-eyed)
- the significance of tycho brahe's observations of the 'new star' of 1572 was that
- they showed that it had to be in the superlunary (celestial) region, thus contradicting aristotle's claim that nothing ever changes there
- in descartes' system, comets are bodies which
- only pass through the solar system one time
- the first scientific society was the
- accademia del lincei (academy of the lynx-eyed)
- the speed of light was first successfully measured by
- Roemer
- according to newton's second law of motion if the same force is applied to two objects, one more massive than the other,
- the less massive one is accelerated more
- the first asteroid was discovered by
- Piazzi, by accident
- the first map of stars in the southern sky made by a european was that of some 350 stars by
- edmond halley
- in his principia, newton used
- a combination of the inductive and deductive methods
- the tides that occur at the times of the quarter moon are called
- neap tides
- the parties involved in the controversy over naked-eye versus telescopic position measurements were Halley, Hooke, and
- Hevelius
- the copernican theory
- was only gradually accepted because proof was lacking
- according to kepler's first law, a planet's orbit is
- an ellipse with the sun at one focus
- titan, the largest moon of saturn, was discovered by
- christiaan huygens
- the approach to natural philosophy by reasoning from specific experiments or observations to general principles is called the
- inductive method
- the 'aerial' telescope was invented by
- Christiaan Huygens
- the critical speed at which an object can break free of the gravity of another object and go to an infinite distance is termed
- escape velocity
- the irregularities -- speeding up and slowing down -- of jupiter and saturn were explained by Laplace as
- the effect of a third-order resonance in their periods, which are in a ratio 2:5
- the first truly accurate pendulum clock was built by
- christiaan huygens
- the first astronomer royal and director of the royal greenwich observatory was
- flamsteed
- the person who persuaded newton to write the principia, mediated a quarrel newton got into about priority, supervised the printing of the book, and paid for its publication was
- Halley
- the speed of light was first measured, based on eclipses of jupiter's satellites, by
- Roemer
- Clairaut and Lepaute successfully
- predicted the date of return of Halley's comet
- the unsigned preface to copernicus' on the revolutions, which claimed the work was only hypothetical was written by
- osiander, a lutheran minister
- newton's version of kepler's third (harmonic) law, is important because
- it gives us most of our knowledge of the masses of stars and galaxies
- the first reasobly good estimate of the earth-sun distance came from a measurement of mar's geocentric parallax at opposition made by picard and
- G. D. Cassini = Cassini I
- the invention of the highly accurate pendulum clock by Huygens enabled Roemer to use a transit telescope to measure
- right ascensions of stars and planets
- The first reasonably correct determination of the length of the astronomical unit (AU) was obtained through measurement of Mar's geocentric parallax at opposition by
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini
- which of the following is not a possible orbit shape in the two-body problem?
- figure eight
- which of the following discoveries made by Galileo with the telescope was not reported in his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger)?
- saturn has a triple form (turned out to be rings)
- if the earth is oblate, the distance corresponding to one degree change in latitude
- increases from the equator to the pole
- the person who was responsible for the publication of principia (though he could never have written it himself) was
- Halley
- which of the following statements is correct?
- galileo showed that sunspots are on the sun's surface and that it rotates
- the methodology of newton's principia was
- a combination of the inductive and deductive methods
- The first planetary tables based on the Copernican theory, the Prutenic Tables, were produced by
- Erasmus Reinhold
- the first scientific society was the
- accademia dei lincei (academy of the lynx-eyed), italy