1. Prepare your scantron:
Use
a pencil,
not a pen!
Fill in your name and fill the bubbles under
your name.
LAST NAME FIRST, First name second
Put your 4-digit code instead of “IDENTIFICATION NUMBER”.
--- (The last 4 digits of your OleMiss ID.)
Question # 1: answer A
Question # 2: answer A
Question # 3: answer B
Setup:
Note extra credit deadlines:
Signup: Sept > contact Shadi
Image Proc. Lab turned in: Sept. 17
Recall reading assignment:
Chapter 1, pp. 1 – 24
Labs this Monday or Tuesday – buy the lab book!
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2. Review questions coming …

3. This question counts double!
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Question 4
Did the Solar System exist five light years ago?
A No, it is much younger than that.
B Yes, it is much older than that.
C The Sun did, but the planets did not.
D The Sun did not, but the planets did.
E This question is nonsense.
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4. This question counts double!
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Question 5
What is an astronomical unit?
A The distance light travels in a year, 10,000,000,000,000 km.
B The radius of the Galaxy, 400,000 km.
C The Earth-Moon distance, 150 million km.
D The Sun-Earth distance, 150 million km.
E The distance to the closest star, 13,000 km.
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5. This question counts double!
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Question 6
How large is the Galaxy?
A 150 million kilometers.
B 4 light years.
C 100,000 light years.
D 14 billion light years.
E Infinitely large.

6. The age of the Universe In the “one year” model
14 billion years ago: The ‘birth’ of the Universe - the Big Bang
100,000 years later: galaxies and first stars form
4.5 billion years ago: the Sun is born
100 million years later: the planets form
500 million years later: the planets cool off & pick up debris
billion years ago: age of the dinosaurs
0.02 billion years ago: oldest monkeys
billion years ago: last ice age ended
billion years ago: history
Jan 1
Aug 1
Aug 3
Aug 13
Dec 24 - Dec 29, 7 am
Dec 31, 12 noon
Dec 31, 11:59:58.9 pm
Dec 31, 11:59:59.5 pm
In the “one year” model

7. Questions coming …

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Question 7
How old is the Universe?
A 1,400 years.
B 14,000 yeas.
C 14,000,000 years.
D 14,000,000,000 years.
E 14,000,000,000,000 years.
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Question 8
How old is the Sun?
A 4,500 years.
B 45,000 years.
C 4,500,000 years.
D 4,500,000,000 years.
E 4,500,000,000,000 years.
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Question 9
How long after the Sun was Earth formed,
compared to the age of the Sun?
A Earth was formed soon after of the Sun.
B Earth was formed half time between the formation
of the Sun and the present.
C Earth was formed much more recently than the Sun was.
D Earth was formed long before the Sun
and was captured by its gravity.
E Earth was formed a short time before the Sun did.
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Question 10
Our written history covers this much of
the existence of Earth …
A 99%
B 60%
C 10%
D 1%
E %