The Final exam will include questions relative to the concepts discussed in class and described in Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of our text book. The exam will consist of 30 multiple choice questions. The following information contains some simple guidelines to aid you study for this exam.

1.- Read all sections of the text book suggested in our AST1002 web page.

2.- Study your class notes, paying particular attention to the questions I asked in class.

3.- Go over the questions of the quizes. A few questions of the Final exam will be very similar to those questions. Ensure that you not only know what the right answer is but also understand why that is the right answer.

4.- Modify some of the questions in the quizes on your own and try to find the right answer.

5.- Some of the key concepts you should remember and understand are summarized below. Note that the exam questions may refer to these concepts but are not necessarily restricted to them.

Chapter 4: General understanding of the Nebular Theory for the
                  formation of the Solar System.  
                  General properties of the Terrestrial and Jovian Planets.
                  Condensation, Temperature, and the Formation of the
                  Terrestrial and Jovian Planets.


Chapter 5: Basic properties of the interior, surface, and 
                  atmosphere of the Earth and the Moon.


Chapter 6: Comparison of the characteristics (interior, surface, 
                  and atmosphere) of Mercury, Venus, and Mars with those 
                  of Earth (Chapter Review). 


Chapters 7 & 8: General properties of the Jovian Planets and their moons (Chapter Reviews).


Chapter 14:The basic constituents of our Galaxy (gas, dust, 
                  stars, globular clusters...) and their 
                  location in the Bulge, Spiral arms, and Halo.
                  The Period-Luminosity relation for Cepheids and its 
                  use as a distance indicator.
                  The Rotation Curve: Implications for the existence of 
                  Dark Matter.


Chapter 15:Hubble's discoveries: The distance to Andromeda, and 
                  the Hubble's law.
                  Galaxy types: basic properties.
                  Galaxy clusters: Implications for Dark Matter from 
                  measurements of their velocities and detections of hot gas.
                  Basic understanding of the current ideas of galaxy 
                  formation and evolution. The role of mergers.


Chapter 16:Key observations that distinguish Active Galaxies 
                  from Normal Galaxies.
                  Evidence for the presence of a supermassive black hole 
                  at the centers of Active Galaxies.


Chapter 17:The Olber's Paradox.
                  Basic understanding of the Big Bang model and the two main
                  observational tests: nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave
                  background.
                  Concepts: Critical Density, Dark Energy. 

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