Earth Sciences 1086F/G- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 46 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Note: numbers in bold are to be remembered; everything else in the course notes can be generalized. Intro lacked information; just outlining how the course works and the course notes are organized. Chapter 1: scientific theory & the big bang. Scientific law explains things, but does not describe them: at the time it is made, there are no exceptions to that law, typically goes hand-in-hand with theories. In this tiny instant, time and space had a finite beginning (at least if you are inside the balloon: note: it is not an explosion; explosions need space to already exist. Light moving towards you = shortened = moves towards blue spectrum (blue- shifted) So, ho = the speed of expansion of the universe: hubble assumed this was constant; he was somewhat wrong. Kevin to: distance (d) of object from earth = velocity (determine by redshift) / ho.
