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What does The Geocentric Model orbit?
The Earth
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What is the Retrograde motion?
A strange motion where every so often Mars changes direction
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What does the Heliocentric Model orbit?
The Sun
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What were two of Galileos observations?
Seeing craters on the Moon and four moons orbiting Jupiter
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Why do we see stars at night?
Because they emit visible light
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What does the Hubble Telscope use to get images?
Infrared and Ultraviolet waves
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What is the equation for magnification of a lense?
Image height divided by Object Height
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Wave Speed=
Distance over time
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What is an Ion?
An atom that has had its elctrons removed fromm the outer shell
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What is Ionisation?
A process where radiation some of its energy to librate an electron from an atom
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alphs rays are low penatrating there for can only travel a feww meters
true
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Alpha rays are ionising to the body
true
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How many Nitrons and Protons do alpha rays haveper nucleus?
2 Protons and 2 Nitrons
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How penatrating are Beta rays?
Moderatly
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Glass can stop Beta radiation
True
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Gamma Rays are most penatrating
True
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Gamma rays are what?
Electromagnetic
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Gamma rays can only get through paper
False it can get through all materials
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Doppler Effect Diagram
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Red Shift Diagram
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The Big Bang Theory proves that the universe was once a.....
Small Point
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