El Paso Communty College, Astronomy final... then Momoko's Apartment, Monday
Q) Kepler's three laws describe
1) the motions of the stars
2) the orbital motions of the planets
3) the phases of the planets
4) the phases of the moon
5) the shapes of the blackbody curves
Momoko filled in the circle for 2 and breathed a sigh of relief. So far so good. One more question and she was done with this page...
Q) What is the physical significance of the constellations, including the 12 signs or constellations of the zodiac?
1) none, they are just random projections of stars onto the celestial sphere
2) your future is determined by which constellation the sun was in when you were born
3) the stars that compose the constellations are gravitationally bound
4) each constellation always has a planet in it
5) you can see all the constellations from all locations on Earth
So far, her Astronomy final had been scarily easy. Maybe she would take the next class, too? Take THAT college! Momoko was doing totally awesome at you! She did a small chair dance as she filled in the little circle and turned the page of her test...
Explain the origin and contributions of interstellar dust in the formation of the solar system.
Momoko bit her pencil, eyes wide as she scanned the rest of the page, finding it filled filled with similar questions. This explained the stack of little blue composition notebooks on the professor's desk.
She was totally going to have to thank Jaime for making her study the actual science-y bits instead of letting her follow her original plan to just focus on memorizing the names of the stars and constellations.
"Did we even cover Conservation of Angular Momentum???" she muttered as she got out of her chair to fetch a notebook.
Somehow she made it through the rest of the test and actually felt kind of good about her answers! But she did hurry home and was now buried in her Correctional Systems and Practices book, re-reading the first few chapters, and wondering if she should call Jaime for another Spanish tutoring session...
[Establishy unless you wanna sloooooooooowplay :) Just had to acknowledge Finals week!]
1) the motions of the stars
2) the orbital motions of the planets
3) the phases of the planets
4) the phases of the moon
5) the shapes of the blackbody curves
Momoko filled in the circle for 2 and breathed a sigh of relief. So far so good. One more question and she was done with this page...
Q) What is the physical significance of the constellations, including the 12 signs or constellations of the zodiac?
1) none, they are just random projections of stars onto the celestial sphere
2) your future is determined by which constellation the sun was in when you were born
3) the stars that compose the constellations are gravitationally bound
4) each constellation always has a planet in it
5) you can see all the constellations from all locations on Earth
So far, her Astronomy final had been scarily easy. Maybe she would take the next class, too? Take THAT college! Momoko was doing totally awesome at you! She did a small chair dance as she filled in the little circle and turned the page of her test...
Explain the origin and contributions of interstellar dust in the formation of the solar system.
Momoko bit her pencil, eyes wide as she scanned the rest of the page, finding it filled filled with similar questions. This explained the stack of little blue composition notebooks on the professor's desk.
She was totally going to have to thank Jaime for making her study the actual science-y bits instead of letting her follow her original plan to just focus on memorizing the names of the stars and constellations.
"Did we even cover Conservation of Angular Momentum???" she muttered as she got out of her chair to fetch a notebook.
Somehow she made it through the rest of the test and actually felt kind of good about her answers! But she did hurry home and was now buried in her Correctional Systems and Practices book, re-reading the first few chapters, and wondering if she should call Jaime for another Spanish tutoring session...
[Establishy unless you wanna sloooooooooowplay :) Just had to acknowledge Finals week!]