April 22, 2000

Answers to questions, week of April 17-21


 
   
Regarding HW#8:

Question 1:
a. Ask yourselves: How is the fact that the wavelength is shifted from the blue end of the spectrum a little towards the red related to its speed?
b. Use the answer from a. and the HUBBLE LAW to find the distance.
c. Use the answer from b. and the luminosity of 100 billion suns + our usual "trick" of finding the flux from luminosity here.
 

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