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Draw a timeline from the year -500 to 1700 CE, showing approximate dates for important astronomical discoveries. Who made each discovery?
If you were sent back in time to Ancient Greece, what facts could you prove about the solar system using only Ancient Greek technology? (no telescopes and no accurate clocks). Sketch diagrams showing how you would prove them with observations. The measurements of Eratosthenes and Aristarchus are possible examples.
Draw a diagram illustrating why the Earth has seasons.
In the future, the Earth is doomed to be destroyed. How will it happen?
What types of natural disasters could befall the United States and which region does each type tend to affect?
Draw a diagram show why the Earth has 2 high tides and 2 low tides per day.
What properties does a planet have to have to generate a magnetic field?
Draw a scale diagram showing the relative sizes of the planets, Pluto, the Earth's moon, Europa, Titan, Ceres, and the sun.
Draw a scale diagram of the distances of the planets from the sun. Where is the boundary for ice and for frozen nitrogen?
What are the 3 most abundant elements in metal asteroids?
List the hazards to life for someone on the surface of Mars. How about Titan?
What is the most abundant molecule in the atmosphere of Venus, Earth, Mars, Titan, and Jupiter?
Draw a diagram showing how the Oberth maneuver works.
Draw a diagram showing how a gravity assist works.
Draw a diagram of the Hohman maneuver.
How many light years away is the star Alpha Centauri?
Draw a timeline showing the evolution of the universe from the big bang until 10 billion years in the future, including as many important phenomena as possible. Show the life cycle of the sun, the geolological history of the Earth, and the evolutionary history of life.
Describe what the universe will look like 1 trillion years from now.
Draw a diagram showing the meaning of Hubble's law for galaxies.
In one plot, show the spectrum for:
A blackbody at 300 Kelvin
A blackbody at 6000 Kelvin
The three color vision cells of the human eye
Photosynthesis
Draw a diagram showing how a converging lens works. How is it turned into a telescope?
What are the differences between the Keck telescope and the Rubin telescope? What can the Pan-STARRS telescope find that Keck can't?
What are the reasons for why the center of Antarctica is a good place for a telescope?
Draw a timeline from the years -500 BCE to 1700 CE, showing approximate dates for important astronomical discoveries. Who made each discovery?
What evidence for heliocentrism existed before the invention of the telescope? What new evidence did Galileo discover by using a telescope?
A person jumps from an airplane, free-falls until reaching terminal velocity, cruises for 10 seconds, and then opens a parachute. After opening the parachute he decreases speed until he reaches a new terminal velocity as determined by the parachute. Draw the position, velocity, and acceleration as a function of time.
What are the technical obstacles to making a fission bomb with uranium-235?
What are the technical obstacles to making a fission bomb with plutonium-239?
Draw a diagram of beta decay including what happens to quarks.
List as many skeletal features you can think of that are common to all tetrapods. How does the breathing cycle work?
If a person's metabolic rate is 100 Watts. How much water vapor is produced by the metabolism in one second?
How many calories per gram are in the following food sources? Fat, sugar, protein, and alcohol. How many Joules are in one food calorie?
Draw a diagram of the eye showing the shape for near focus and far focus.
Draw a diagram showing the skull, the atlas vertebra, and the axis vertebra, showing how each joint pivots.
Draw a set of diagrams showing how a cat that is dropped upside down can land upside right. Assume that the cat is dropped with zero angular momentum.
Draw a diagram showing the motion of the diaphragm and ribcage in the breathing cycle. Show a side view of the curvature of the spine.
What skeletal features are common to all tetrapods? What skeletal features show significant variation among tetrapods?
Sketch the shape and location of the larynx and hyoid bone.
Draw a diagram showing that rotations are non-commutative.
Draw a diagram showing two waves that are in phase and another diagram where they are out of phase.
The instruments of Indian classical music are the sitar, sarod, surbahar, tanpura, bansuri, shehnai, sarangi, violin, santoor, pakhavaj and tabla. Describe the differences between Indian instruments and Western orchestral instruments. You don't need to know the instruments by name. The focus is on the mechanical and tuning properties.
Draw a timeline from 1600 to 1900 showing approximate ranges for each of the musical eras. Show approximate ranges for the lifespans of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven.
What is the time for a chemical and electric synapse? What is the speed of neural signals?
Draw a diagram showing the color ranges of the three types of cone cells in the eye.
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