Vocab Crossword
Across
- 4. point on a surface wave where the displacement of the medium is at maximum.
- 5. every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is directly proportional to the distance between their centers.
- 8. the distance from one crest to another.
- 9. ab increase in wavelength
- 12. a small dense star, formed when a low mass star has exhausted all its central fuel and lost its outter layers.
- 16. any decrease in wavelength
- 17. continuous and distinctive band of stars that appear on plots of stellar color versus
- 18. a unit of asronomical distance equivalent to the distance that travels in one year
Down
- 1. a luminous gaint star of low mass in a late phase or stellar evoultion.
- 2. a class of star that develops from red dwarf after it has exhausted much of its hydrogen fuel supply.
- 3. magnitude measure of luminosity of celestial object
- 6. magnitude the measure of brightness
- 7. produced when a rise in temp. causes atoms and molecules to move faster and collide with each either.
- 10. the minimum or lowest point in a line.
- 11. the measure of radiated electromagnetic power, the radiant power emitted by a light-emitting.
- 13. the change in frequnecy of a wave in realation to an observer who is moving realtive to the wave source
- 14. a scatter plot of stars that shows the realtionship between the stars absoulute magnitudes or luminiosites verus their stellar classifications or effective temps.
- 15. difference between the elevations of a crest and a neighboring through.