Physics Exam

Which civilization made the earliest written records of eclipses?

• Greeks

• Egyptians

• Babylonians

• Chinese

What is the time it takes for the sun to return to fixed stars?

• Tropical year

• Solar Eclipse

• 2 months

• Sidereal Year

What is diurnal motion?

• The movement of the Earth around the sun

• Events that happen only once a year

• The daily motion of the sky from east to west

• The gradual shift in the orientation of Earth's axis

What celestial bodies did Galileo discover orbiting Jupiter?

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Stars

• Moons

Who gave the Galilean moons their individual names?

• Galileo

• Simon Marius

• Copernicus

• Aristotle

He is given credit for circumnavigating that the world and proving that Earth is not flat.

• Thales of Miletus

• Socrates

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Plato

What is the eccentric in Ptolemy's model?

• The center of the deferent of the planetary spheres

• The center of the sun

• The center of the Earth

• The path of the planets

What shape is the Earth's shadow during a lunar eclipse?

• Oval

• Square

• Triangular

• Circular

Which philosophers taught their students that the world was round without providing justification or proof?

• Aristotle and Eratosthenes

• Pythagoras and Plato

• Magellan and Sebastian

• Ferguson and Thales

Who provided physical and observational arguments supporting that the Earth is spherical?

• Aristotle

• Phythagoras

• Plato

• Thales