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ASTRO PHYSICS (BSPH 55)

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT - I

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1. The greatest distance of a planet from the sun is called what? Is it the planet's:

aphelion

perihelion

helix

eccentricity

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2. The biggest asteroid known is

Vesta

Icarus

Ceres

Eros

3. The planet Jupiter has a mass that is:

equal to the combined masses of the earth and Mars

equal to the combined masses of Saturn and Pluto

equal to the combined masses of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus

greater than the combined masses of all of the planets

4. Rounded to the nearest day, the Mercurian year is equal to

115

78

88

165

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5.One of the largest Volcanoes in our solar system-if not the largest is named Olympus Mons.
This Volcano is located on

Jupiters Moon Callisto

Venus

Saturns Moon Titan

Mars

6. One Jupiter day is equal to which of the following?

8 hrs 40 min

9 hrs 50 min

10 hrs 30 min

12 hrs 10 min

7. The time interval between two successive occurrences of a specific type of alignment of a
planet (or the moon) with the sun and the earth is referred to as

conjunction

an opposition

a sidereal period

a synodic period

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8. Which one best represents the time it takes energy generated in the core of the sun to
reach the surface of the sun and be radiated?

Three minutes

Thirty days

One thousand years

One million years

9. The sunspot cycle is

3 years

7 years

11 years

14 years

10. The Andromeda Galaxy is which of the following types of galaxies?

elliptical

spiral

barred-spiral

irregular

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11. About how many light years across is the Milky Way?

1,000

10,000

100,000

1000,000

12. Cosmology is the branch of science concerned with the ____________

Formation of Planets

Formation of Stars

Formation of Universe

Formation of Black holes

13. Evidence that much of the mass of the universe consist of dark energy has come
from__________

measuring the density of matter in the solar system

determining the distance to the Coma cluster

determining the distance to quasars

observing extremely distant supernovae

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14. Which of the following is not an implication of Hubble’s law?

The universe is expanding

We are in the center of the universe

The universe had a beginning

The universe was once denser than it is now

15. The expansion age of the universe is about _________

1 billion years

10 billion years

100 billion years

1000 billion years

16. The rate of expansion of the universe is __________

Decelerating

Accelerating

Constant

Zero

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17. The cosmic background radiation observed is starlight.

True

False

18. What will happen if the density of the universe is less than the critical density?

The Universe will contract

The Universe will contract and then rebound

The universe will stop expanding

The universe will keep expanding forever

19. The theory which believes that the universe works like a heart beating in rhythms is
_________

Oscillating Universe Theory

Slowing down theory

Big crunch theory

Big bang theory

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20. Most of the helium of the universe was produced __________

In stars

In quasars

At the time the cosmic background radiation was formed

First ten minutes of the expansion

21. The cluster of galaxies which is farthest from the Earth is __________

Abel 2218

Milky way

Andromeda

Cartwheel

22. The brightest star in a constellation _________

Alpha

Omega

Pulsar

Beta

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23. A planet is orbiting a star. What is relation between T and T , given that the arc subtended
on the path by the planet is same in both cases?

Ta = Tb

Ta > Tb

Ta < Tb

Insufficient information

24. Refracting telescopes always contain which one of the following?

mirrors

lenses

television systems

film

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25. For what reason was the Schmidt telescope specially built? Was it to serve as:

a sky camera

a radio telescope

an optical telescope

a solar telescope

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