NATS 1880- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 169 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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NATS 1880
Final EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
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NATS 1880 Life Beyond Earth:
A UNIVERSIVE OF LIFE?
PROFFESOR PAUL DELANEY
Office Hours: Tuesday 11am -Noon BC 218
MOODLE
• Login in frequently
• Read course outline
• Book in book store
COURSE ASSESSMENT
• 15 percent in-class assignments (bi-weekly in-class group activities)
• 10 percent in class clicker questions, each ? Have a participation mark and a correct
answer mark weighted 1:3
DO CLICKER QUESTIONS
• 15% Online Chapter Assignments online through Moodle (OCA)
• 10 percent Saturday October 25 test (nominally chapters 1 2 3 multiple choice format)
• 20 % December Exam (Chapter 1-6) multiple choice
• 10% Feb 28 Exam (Chapters 7-10) multiple choice
• 20% Apr Exam (Chapters 7-13) multiple choice format
• 100 % TOTAL
• Only count 10 of the 13 offered OCA's, only the best 10 marks will count towards the
15% grade for the OCA's
• Only count 8 of the 10 offered ICA's
• COUNT THE BEST 80%
GROUP COMPOSTION:
• ICAs require you to work in groups of about 4-6
• Friday of next week is the deadline to tell them who you want to work with (email
• Check Moodle
IMPORTANT DATES TO NOTE
• In class clicker questions for assessment start Tuesday September 25
• Practice questions September 16 and 18
• In class assignments ICAs start Thursday September 25
• Last day to register your clicker October 1 (after this date no clicker marks can be
awarded)
HOW TO SUCCEED IN CLASS
• For everyone 1 hour class you need to spend 2 hours per week on the class
FIRST ASSIGNMENT
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• Available at 2:30 on September 9th 2014
• Read the course outline and you will be fine
• Have to get 17/17
QUIZ FOR ALL INFORMATION ABOVE
LECTURE 1:
CHAPTER 1
KEY CONCEPTS
• What are we searching for?
Initially, life as we know it, signatures of earth
• Is it reasonable to imagine Life Beyond Earth
Using scientific principle, we can now address this question, we haven't found the answer
to life beyond earth, but we can ask the question expectation to find an answer in this life
time, no evidence as of yet but we (scientists) are very curious
DONT TALK ABOUT IT IN CLASS, NOT ON AN ICA = NOT ON THE EXAM
AVAILABLE ONLINE
SCIENCE FACT MEETING SCIENCE FICTION?
• Some say we already have, going on the moon and such
• We have not found evidence of life anywhere other than earth
• No disputable proof of life else where
SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1917-2008)
• Wrote dozens and dozens of books
• Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either
case, the idea is quite staggering.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
• Any sign of life
• Macroscopic
• Microscopic
• Defining life is not easy (even on earth!)
• Existence of earth on a given real estate is now almost detectable but that doesn't mean
they can respond back to us, it could be as small as bacteria
• Searching for ANY science of life
• Defining life itself is difficult
• Life isn't as obvious as you think
• Where do we search for this life?
We start right here on earth, if we need to look somewhere else we need to know
everything and anything about our planet, we must start here at home, start from a place of
knowledge and understanding
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Document Summary
15 percent in-class assignments (bi-weekly in-class group activities) Have a participation mark and a correct answer mark weighted 1:3. 15% online chapter assignments online through moodle (oca) 10 percent saturday october 25 test (nominally chapters 1 2 3 multiple choice format) 20 % december exam (chapter 1-6) multiple choice. 10% feb 28 exam (chapters 7-10) multiple choice. 20% apr exam (chapters 7-13) multiple choice format. Only count 10 of the 13 offered oca"s, only the best 10 marks will count towards the. Only count 8 of the 10 offered ica"s. Icas require you to work in groups of about 4-6. Friday of next week is the deadline to tell them who you want to work with (email nats1880@yorku. ca) In class clicker questions for assessment start tuesday september 25. In class assignments icas start thursday september 25. Last day to register your clicker october 1 (after this date no clicker marks can be awarded)
