ASTR 324 - barnett questions

only the month, day, and year are the only 3 natural time keeping phenomena

a. true

b. false

true

humans have lived with some kind of clock for

a. 100s of years

b. millions of years

c. 1000s of year

1000s of years

venus’s day is longer than its year

a. true

b. false

true

the moon is slowly moving away from the earth

a. true

b. false

true

the sun casts shorter shadows when it is

a. closer to the horizon

b. more overhead

c. on a cloudy day

more overhead

water clocks flowed at different rates depending on the temperature

a. true

b. false

true

sand would wear down the hole in an hour glass, making it run faster

a. true

b. false

true

looks like early on, clocks could lose 1 hour a day

a. true

b. false

true

early clocks were hung high for the silliest reason: to give the weight room to fall

a. true

b. false

true

the spring was the breakthrough that led to portability

a. true

b. false

true

springs would always apply the same force to what they were connected to, as they unwound

a. true

b. false

false

a fusee was a cone-shaped device

a. true

b. false

true

a fusee made a spring apply a constant force

a. true

b. false

true

when a spring is all wound up, it would typically pull on the narrowest part of the fusee

a. true

b. false

true

building big church clocks led to the profession of the clockmaker

a. true

b. false

false

early watches got more and more beautiful to look at, but not more and more accurate

a. true

b. false

true

the time checks of early clocks was done using the sundial

a. true

b. false

true

galileo uses his pulse to time a swinging altar lamp, thus discovering the pendulum

a. true

b. false

true

the anchor escapement demanded a very large pendulum arc to work

a. true

b. false

false

grandfather clocks were so tall for the sole reason to accommodate the long pendulum

a. true

b. false

false

the first pendulum clocks were accurate enough to show that the sun does not move at a constant rate through the sky

a. true

b. false

true

looks like being able to find longitude is one of the great chapters in human history

a. true

b. false

true

the roman empire was huge

a. true

b. false

false

early on, going west would stop at the atlantic ocean

a. true

b. false

true

astronauts to the moon had the same sense of being lost as did those doing early ocean crossings

a. true

b. false

false

thanks to maps at the time, columbus thought trans-atlantic voyage would be a short one

a. true

b. false

true

the equator is a line of latitude

a. true

b. false

true

navigation and cartography are more or less the same thing

a. true

b. false

true

this queen introduced the longitude prize

a. anne

b. moore

c. victoria

d. elizabeth

anne

the first man on the moon proposed a toast to

a. JFK

b. galileo

c. john harrison

d. elon musk

john harrison