Final Exam

• Final Exam is cumulative, covering all lectures.
• 50 multiple choice questions.
• You need a No. 2 pencil, an eraser, and your ID.
• No calculators (or cell phones or ipods) are allowed.
• Turn in the answers and leave whenever you are done.
• "Re-take" option
• strictly optional
• likely to help but it can hurt your grade
• new grade = (75% original grade) + (25% "re-take" grade)
• take a new answer sheet and return it to my office by 1pm next day
• No make-up exam except for special cases arranged at least one week in advance!!!

Final Exam Preparation

The final exam will be primarily based on questions covered in the first three exams. You should understand WHY the right answer is what it is, rather than WHAT the right answer is. You should not expect the final exam questions to be identical to the first three exams or even in the same form.

1. Review the three previous exams (exam 1, exam 2,exam 3 and keys to exam1, exam2, and exam3)
2. Review the class notes (your own and online)
3. Review all HWs and in-class quizzes
4. Study the review questions at the back of each chapter
5. Study the extra online quiz questions
6. Read the relevant chapters in the textbook

About 15% of the questions are quantitative. Review the earlier exams for specific examples. Equations you should know are:

1. Newton's laws
2. Kepler's law and dynamical mass
3. parallax
4. inverse square law
5. magnitude system
6. Stefan-Boltzmann law
7. mass-luminosity relation
8. main sequence lifetime
9. ideal (perfect) gas law
10. black hole (Schwarzschild) radius
11. Doppler effect and redshift
12. Hubble law and the age of the universe
13. Physical characteristics of the Milky Way Galaxy (e.g. size, mass, age)
14. Weighing galaxies
15. Physical characteristics of the universe (e.g. size, mass, age)
16. Know the sizes and masses of various astronomical objects
17. Keg's Law (for practicing ratios)

Review Q & A session: May 16 (Friday) at 5:00PM in HAS 134