When and Where: Monday Oct 29, 2012 in Armes 200. 6:30pm. 60 minutes long.

Format:
About 35 multiple choice and true or false questions.
About 5-10 of these questions will use arithmetic.
About 5-8 of these questions will be slide images.

What to bring:
Pencils. Non-programmable calculators. No Textbooks. Note: cell phones, pagers, PDAs, MP3 units or electronic translators are explicitly listed as unauthorized materials, and must not be present during tests or examinations. Leave them at home or you will be asked to put them at the front of the classroom.

Math Questions:
If constants are needed they will be given. Exact characteristics (radii, distances, masses) will be given if needed. However approximate scales of classes of objects should be known. Equations for exact calculations will be given except for the relationships between luminosity, surface area and surface temperature; Wien's Law and the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, Doppler shift, telescope formulae, Newton's Laws of Gravitation and of Inertia, the definition of density, the escape velocity, velocity = circumference/period, the relationship between Mass, velocity, and distance between objects and other formulae for deriving characteristics of planets.

Range of Questions:
Although there is overlap with the lab material, questions will be selected from lecture material and from specific readings that have been requested by the instructor (e.g. specified sections, diagrams, tables). For example, the lectures did not emphasize history so dates and scientists' names will not be required. See "Topics" below.

Image Slide Questions:
Slides questions of astronomy images will not ask for the specific name of the object but will test for astronomy information, e.g. the class of objects, and concepts, e.g. how the image is relevant to our studies of, say, gravity or what processes produce the kind of emission shown in the image.

Answer Forms and Question Sheets:
Answer Forms (i.e. Bubble Sheets) must be filled out according to the instructions on the sheet. ONLY USE PENCIL. These will be read by a machine so try to be tidy to ensure that you get the correct mark. Fill these in at least five minutes before the end of the test time period. You must write down your name, student number, your faculty, the class number (Phys 1810), and section, and the instructor's name.
Question sheets will be returned to the instructor at the end of the test. They will be retained for about 1 week after the marks are posted so that you may discuss them individually with the instructor. Therefore do your work on the question sheets and put your name on them. Leave at least 5 minutes for transferring your answers to the bubble sheet before the end of the test. The exam key outside the Dr. English's door (Allen Building 514) Marks will be posted, about 5 days after the test, outside the Dr. English's door (Allen Building 514).

Topics on this test:
The topics will cover the material following the last test. This material includes the radiation and spectra, doppler shift, telescopes and detectors, and basic information about planets in our solar system. With respect to the textbook, see the topic outline online at http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~english/2012fallphys1810/phys1810sched.html for some sections that are relevant. Also the "road maps" at the beginning of each lecture were more specific. Note that knowledge in this course is cummulative so that material from the first part of the term appears in these topics. If you like, the test is "pseudo-cummulative".
Links to some supplemental material are posted at http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~english/2012fallphys1810/index.html#sup.

Tips for Review and Practise:

• A review is provided at the end of each chapter under the sections called Summary, Review and Discussion, and Conceptual Self-Test. Look up the Key Terms in the Glossary G-1. Also redoing the Preview part of the PQRST study method provides a good review.
  
  
• While reading your notes from class, look up the topic that you are reading about using the text's subject index for the appropriate pages. Read the pages associated with the relevant chapter.
  
  
• Review all the questions posed in class and all the exercises done in class, especially those done with your fellow students during class.
  
  
• Bring specific questions to the instructor during tutorial hour or make an appointment via email. Tutorial hours will be Monday Oct 22 at 3:30 pm and Friday Oct 26 at noon. The room is Allen 514 (a note will be on the door if we move to a larger room). Also contact the UM Astronomy Club for mentoring.
  
  
• It is good practice to re-do all the mathematical examples done in class. Make up some of your own questions by re-arranging the equations.
  
  
• To increase your skill for multiple choice questions, do the conceptual self-test multiple choice questions for those topics covered in class. Also do those multiple choice questions which are relevant to the lecture material at http://www.aw-bc.com/chaisson/. Your access code is in the front of the textbook.
  
  

Tip for the test: During the test, it is recommended that the whole test is read first in order to rank the questions as "easy", "challenging", and "difficult". It is best to do the easiest questions first and the difficult questions last so that as many questions as possible are answered before the time runs out.

After reading the question, without looking at the multiple choice answers, state to yourself what you think the answer is. Then look for it amongst the multiple choices.