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Name: Derek Greene GS 107 Homework #2 Summer 2022 (10 points each for 50 total points) 1. Multiple Choice A. ____ The Earth’s orbit around the Sun depends strongly on Earth’s mass. a. True b. False c. Impossible to tell with the information given in Chapters 1-3. B. ___ The Moon’s orbit around the Earth depends strongly on the Earth’s mass. a. True b. False b. Impossible to tell with the information given in Chapters 1-3. C. __A photon with a larger wavelength has more energy than one with a smaller wavelength. a. True b. False c. Impossible to tell with the information given. D. ___ A photon with a larger frequency has more energy than one with a smaller frequency. a. True b. False c. Impossible to tell with the information given. E. ___ What is the luminosity of a star with half the temperature and three times the radius of the Sun? a. 20.25 times as much b. 56.25% as much c. 1.5 times as much d. 66.67% times as much F. 1
2. How many times larger is the force of gravity between the Earth and the Sun than Mars and the Sun? (Hint: You’ll need to look up some mass and orbit data here from an appendix in our text. https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/f-physical-and-orbital-data-for- the-planets ) 2
3. What would the period be between an Earth-like planet 2.25 AU away from a star 1.75 times the mass of the sun (1.75 solar masses)? You may treat the orbit as circular. 3
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