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blue
If a star is moving toward us, its light will be Doppler shifted toward the:
blue, yellow, red
Three stars of different colors all have the same absolute magnitude. Arrange them in order of increasing size:
black
A body which is a perfect radiator is also referred to as a __ body:
kelvin
The total energy emitted per unit area by a black body is proportional to the fourth power of the ___ temperature:
is moving toward us
If the wavelengths of the absorption lines in a star are shorter than the wavelengths of the corresponding absorption lines observed in the Sun, that star:
the fourth power of its temperature
The energy per unit area of continuous radiation emitted by a star is proportional to:
difference in the energies of the two levels
The wavelength of light emitted by an excited atom depends upon the:
the Balmer series
The visible set of lines produced by hydrogen transitions ending on the n = 2 level is called:
speed up
As a gas is heated, its toms or molecues:
electrons
The Bohr model of the atom puts the __ in shells around the nucleus:
a small nucleus of protons and neutrons, surrounded by a cloud of electrons
An atom can best be described as:
the nucleus
The protons in an atom are found in:
absolute magnitudes
If two stars have the same spectral class and are of different sizes, they must have different:
temperature
the average speed of the molecules of a gas is directly related to the ____ of the gas:
slow down
As a gas is slightly cooled, its atoms or molecules:
Wrong - each spectral class represents a range of temperatures. The temperature is determined by spectral lines
Each spectral class of stars represents a unique temperature. :
the radiation it emits tells us nothing about its chemical composition
A body which is a perfect radiator is reffered to as a black body. This is because:
in a cloud around the nucleus
The electrons in an atom are found:
the stefan-boltzmann
"The total energy emitted per unit area per unit time for a perfect radiator is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature in degrees Kelvin." This is a statement of _____ law. :
2,3
The hydrogen alpha line involves transitions between n = _____ and the n = _____ levels of hydrogen:
fourth
The total energy emitted per unit area by a black body is proportional to the ___ power of the Kelvin temperature:
sizes
If two stars of the same spectral class have different absolute magnitudes, they must have different:
is the change in observed wavelength from a wave source that is approaching or receding from us
the doppler effect
red
If a star is moving away from us, its light will be Doppler shifted toward the:

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