AQA A-Level Physics Astrophysics Course

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A Quiz for testing knowledge on the whole astrophysics course
Tom Frampton
Quiz by Tom Frampton, updated more than 1 year ago
Tom Frampton
Created by Tom Frampton about 8 years ago
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Question 1

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What type of lens is used for observing the night sky?
Answer
  • Converging
  • Diverging
  • Concatonating
  • Diffracting

Question 2

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What happens to light when it passes from air into a lens?
Answer
  • It slows down
  • It speeds up
  • It bends towards the normal
  • It bends away from the normal
  • It is reflected off

Question 3

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A convex lens is a type of converging lens
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 4

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What are components of a ray diagram?
Answer
  • Principal Axis
  • The Singularity
  • The Focal Length
  • The Principal Focus
  • The Headline
  • The Lens Cap

Question 5

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True or False - This ray diagram shows an object between F and 2F
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 6

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True or False - This image shows a ray diagram of an object at 2F
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 7

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What are the 3 properties of an image on a ray diagram?
Answer
  • Magnification
  • Direction
  • Orientation
  • Nature
  • Shape
  • Curvature

Question 8

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True or False - The image shows The Lens Formula
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 9

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True or False - Converging lenses must have positive focal lengths, and diverging lenses must have negative focal lengths for the formula to work.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 10

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True or False - For the formula to work, distances to real images should be negative and those to virtual images should be positive
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 11

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True or False - this diagram shows an Astronomical Telescope in normal adjustment
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 12

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The units for the Small Angle Approximation are:
Answer
  • angle = radians height = centimetres distance = meters
  • angle = radians height = metres distance = parsecs
  • angle = radians height = metres distance = metres
  • angle = degrees height = metres distance = metres

Question 13

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The formula for Angular Magnificatio = fe/f0
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 14

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Select features which define a reflecting telescope
Answer
  • They use a spherical mirror
  • They can suffer from spherical aberration
  • They feature a principal axis
  • They use the idea of angle of incidence = angle of refraction
  • A parabolic mirror is used
  • They suffer from chromatic aberration

Question 15

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What are the differences and similarities between reflecting telescopes and Cassegrain Telescopes?
Answer
  • They both use elliptical mirrors
  • They both suffer from spherical aberration
  • A reflecting telescope has only one mirror, while a cassegrain telescope has two - a primary mirror and a secondary mirror
  • Both mirrors have holes in them

Question 16

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A Cassegrain reflector uses a secondary mirror to direct light rays reflected by the primary mirror through a hole in the primary mirror towards the observer
Answer
  • True
  • False
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