Study Guide for the Final Exam

See also the study guides for the exam 1 and exam 2

Remember to also look at the weekly study questions.

 

Week 10: Video, Ch. 11, 12, 13
  • Jovian Planets
  • atmospheres
  • internal heat sources
  • internal structure
  • magnetic fields
  • rings
  • moons (see list on week 10 study questions)
  • Cassini mission
  • red spot
  • great dark spot
  • Cassini division (or gap)
  • roche limit
  • shepherd satellites (or moons)

 

 

Week 11: Web sites, Ch. 14, Video 
  • Galilean moons
  • Formation of the solar system
  • nebular theory
  • solar nebula
  • condensation theory
  • condensation nuclei
  • accretion
  • planetesimals
  • fragmentation
  • volatile
  • refractory
Week 12: Ch. 15, web sites, handout
  • Exoplanets
  • characteristics of exoplanets
  • discover/detection of exoplanets
  • systems of time
  • longitude correction
  • equation of time
  • exoplanets 
  • hot Jupiters
  • brown dwarf
  • local apparent time
  • local mean time
  • zone time
  • mean sun
  • equation of time
Week 13: Ch. 16, web sites
  • The Sun
  • structure of the sun
  • solar activity
  • energy generation
  • solar neutrinos

 

  • core
  • radiative zone
  • convective zone
  • photosphere
  • granulation
  • chromosphere
  • transition zone
  • corona
  • sunspots
  • solar cycle
  • solar flares
  • prominences
  • solar wind
  • helioseismology
  • proton-proton chain
  • neutrino
Week 14:  Web Sites 
  • Aurora
  • Earth-Sun interactions
  • Aurora
  • magnetosphere
  • coronal mass ejection
  • geomagnetic storm