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Pre-Lab Quiz: Doppler Dupes
Discuss each question with your team. Be prepared to explain the reasoning behind your team's answers after the quiz.
- Which of the following can affect the apparent wavelength of light?
- The velocity of the source
- The velocity of the observer
- The medium the light travels through
- Gravity
- All of the above
- As an object moves towards an observer, _________
- the wavelength of the light will increase and the frequency will decrease.
- the wavelength of the light will decrease and the frequency will increase.
- the wavelength and frequency will both increase.
- the wavelength and frequency will both decrease.
- the wavelength and frequency will stay the same.
- The phenomenon described above is known as _________
- the Black Drop effect.
- the Yarkovsky effect.
- the Doppler effect.
- the Greenhouse effect.
- the Holtzman effect.
- Observations of the cosmos suggest that the Universe is _________
- static.
- collapsing.
- expanding at a constant rate.
- expanding at an increasing rate.
- banana-shaped.
- The estimated age of the Universe is _________
- less than 10 thousand years.
- between 10 thousand years and 10 million years.
- between 10 million years and 100 million years.
- between 100 million years and 10 billion years.
- between 10 billion years and 100 billion years.
- more than 100 billion years.