big bang Flashcards
What will be the most likely “end” of the universe
The Big freeze/heat death, all heat and therefor energy will be used up,
Are the Universes occupants slowing down or speeding up
Everything in the universe is speeding away from each other and speeding up
What is a main piece of evidence for the big bang? (A)
CMB or cosmic microwave backround
What is a main piece of evidence of the big bang?(B)
the universe is expanding away from itself very quickly meaning something with practically incalculable energy for that to happen.
How much of the universe is made up of dark matter
arund 95-98% of the known universe is made up of stuff we can not observe
what is the cause of red shifting
as light flies through space which is expanding, that expanding actually stretches the light wavlengths out
Who first observed/theorized about red shift?
Edwin Hubble in 1929
red shift vs Blue shift?
red shift occures when something is moving away from you, blue shift the opposite happens when something is moving towards you
what did the very first galaxies look like/what were they composed of
in the very beginning at the start of the universe there were no solid planets among the galaxies and stars
what is CMB?
Cosmic Microwave Backround is a faint old light from the beginning of the universe that appears to encompass/ exist throughout the whole Universe
distance and displacement
distance encompasses the amount of units traveled in total while displacement refers to the distance from the starting point
speed vs velocity
speed is amount of distance covered in a certain amount of time, velocity is speed with direction
how do you calculate average speed with distance and time
divide distance by time
how do you calculate average velocity?
displacement divided by time
finding displacement from position time graph
find the distance of a point on the graph, in this case the distance will equal the displacement