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Astronomy and physics education research and comments, field-tested think-pair-share (peer instruction) clicker questions, flashcard questions, in-class activities (lecture-tutorials), current events questions, backwards faded scaffolding laboratories, Hake gains, field-tested multiple-choice and essay exam questions, indices of discrimination, presentation slides, photos, ephemerae, astronomy in the marketplace, unrelated random sketches and minutiae.

20160624

Physics quiz question: thermal contraction of James Webb Space Telescope mirror segment

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Physics 205A Quiz 7, fall semester 2015 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA "Reflections on JWST - May 4, 2016" James Webb Sp...

Physics quiz question: rate of thermal loss through sleeping pad

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Physics 205A Quiz 7, fall semester 2015 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA "Therm-a-Rest® Closed-Cell Mattresses" Therm-a-Res...
20160622

Physics quiz question: comparing surface temperatures of Bellatrix and Pollux

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Physics 205A Quiz 7, fall semester 2015 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Stars can be modeled as spherical blackbodies that radiate he...

Physics quiz question: surface temperature of Bellatrix

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Physics 205A Quiz 7, fall semester 2015 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Stars can be modeled as spherical blackbodies that radiate he...
20160615

Physics quiz question: interpreting β+ decay Feynman diagram

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Physics 205B Quiz 7, spring semester 2016 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA This (valid) Feynman diagram depicts the __________ process...
20160614

Physics quiz question: ammeter reading, connected in series with voltmeter

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Physics 205B Quiz 5, spring semester 2016 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA An ideal 3.2 V emf source is connected to an ideal voltmete...

Physics quiz question: power dissipated by light bulb in series circuit

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Physics 205B Quiz 5, spring semester 2016 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA An ideal 6.0 V emf source is connected to two light bulbs (...
20160613

Physics quiz question: step-down transformer output current

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Physics 205B Quiz 6, spring semester 2016 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA A step-up transformer with 20 times more coils in the secon...
20160609

Astronomy quiz question: Milky Way's oldest stars

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Astronomy 210 Quiz 7, spring semester 2016 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA According to the monolithic collapse model, the oldest sta...
20160608

Astronomy final exam question: brighter absolute magnitude star?

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Astronomy 210 Final Exam, spring semester 2016 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Two stars have the same apparent magnitude m , but one...
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