The first eleven questions are matching. Use the following eleven satellite names to answer the first eleven questions.
Satellite names

  1. Aqua
  2. Aura
  3. Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
  4. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
  5. Jason Ocean Surface Topography Mission
  6. RADARSAT
  7. Solar Dynamics Observatory
  8. Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership
  9. Terra
  10. Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS)
  11. Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Test 03 • Your Name:

  1. _____ Bounces microwaves off of rain drops in tropical clouds to better understand typhoon formation
  2. _____ Measures radiation energy radiated back into space by clouds and earth
  3. _____ Mission to map the height of the sea surface
  4. _____ Monitors interaction between sunlight and aquatic water
  5. _____ Monitors the speed with which terran vegetation, plants, grow.
  6. _____ Observes the radiation released by the dynamically changing sun
  7. _____ Orbits north to south traveling pole-to-pole imaging in infrared and ultraviolet in order to make measurements of the whole planet
  8. _____ Radar satellite that maps earth surface to within one vertical meter
  9. _____ Studies and tracks storms in the magnetosphere building up a history of the storms over time
  10. _____ Studies the air that surrounds us like an aurora, measuring nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide level
  11. _____ Weather tracking and imaging spacecraft that remain fixed over one location on the planet earth
  12. For the next few questions the instructor should have brought a thermometer. He will write some values on the board. Use those values for the questions below.
    1. _______°C What is the dry bulb temperature?
    2. _______°C What is the wet bulb temperature?
    3. _______% Use a table to determine the relative humidity.
    4. _______°C Use a table to determine the heat index (the perceived temperature).
    5. ______________ What is the risk level for exercise: low, moderate, or high?
  13. bernoulli effect As a runner who juggles (joggler), I have to be constantly of the wind environment around me. In the diagram a joggler in the wind shadow (the leeward side) of a building approaches the corner of the building. The air speed is higher at the corner of the building. What is the name of this effect?
  14. A RipStik was swizzled ("wiggled") across 160 centimeters of poster paper in a time of two seconds. The sinusoidal swizzle wave can be seen in the diagram below.
    RipStik swizzle sine wave 8 cm 160 cm
    1. λ = _________ _________ Calculate the wavelength λ of one wave.
    2. a = _________ _________ Calculate the amplitude a.
    3. τ = _________ _________ Calculate the period τ.
    4. f = _________ _________ Calculate the RipStik swizzle wave frequency f.
    5. ѵwave = _________ _________ Use the wavelength λ and frequency f to calculate the velocity ѵwave of the RipStik swizzle wave.
    6. ѵboard = _________ _________ Use the 160 centimeters traveled and the two seconds to travel that distance to calculate the velocity ѵboard of the RipStik board.
    7. _________ Is ѵwave equal to ѵboard?
    8. _________ How many wavelengths in all are there on the "paper" above?
  15. Bouncing ball ball arrows A ball bounces 40 times in 10 seconds.
    1. τ = _________ _________What is the period of the bouncing ball?
    2. f = _________ _________ What is the frequency for the bouncing ball?
  16. During laboratory nine, the speed of sound, a student is 136 meters from the female residence hall banging two boards together in synch with the echoes. The other students count 25 claps in ten seconds.
    1. τ = ________ _________ What is the period for the echo (the out-and-back time)?
    2. velocity ѵ = _________ _________ What is the experimental speed of sound?
    3. % error = _________ _________ Given that the actual speed of sound that day was 347 m/s, what is the percentage error?
  17. Plot the data provided on the graph below and draw a line through the points. Use the data and chart to calculate the speed of sound.
    Graphical analysis

    Data

    time (s)distance (m)
    0.000
    0.268
    0.4136
    0.6204
    0.8272
    1.0340
    background rectangle major grid lines axes text layers Speed of Sound data time (s) distance (m) y-axis labels 0 40 80 120 160 200 240 280 320 360 400 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0

    Speed of sound: _____________ _________
  18. List the primary colors of light (additive colors):
  19. List the secondary colors of light (additive colors):
  20. List the primary colors of pigments (subtractive colors):
  21. List the secondary colors of pigments (subtractive colors):
  22. ________ What color is #0F0?
  23. ________ What color is #0FF?
  24. ________ What color is #000?
  25. What is hue?
  26. What is saturation?
  27. What is luminosity?
  28. Absorbed light is converted to ______________
  29. Red objects absorb all colors except _______________
  30. Red objects reflect what color of light?_______________
  31. ________ The color of an object is the color it ABSORBS / REFLECTS.
  32. ________ Our sky appears blue because the atmosphere ABSORBS / SCATTERS more blue light than any other color.
  33. List the seven colors of the Newtonian spectrum in order:

slope m= (y2y1) (x2x1)
distance d = velocity ѵ * time t
period τ = 1 ÷ (frequency f )
velocity ѵ = wavelength λ * frequency f

Relative humidity from dry bulb and wet bulb depression
Web bulb depression in °C: Dry bulb minus the wet bulb
Dry bulb T in °C 0.5 1.0 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 5.0
2195%90%83%79%77%72% 67% 60%
2496%91%84%80%78%74% 69% 62%
2796%91%85%81%78%75% 71% 65%
28 96% 93% 85% 82% 78% 75% 72% 65%
29 96% 93% 88% 84% 80% 76% 73% 66%
30 96% 93% 88% 84% 81% 76% 73% 67%
3296%93%89%85%81%78% 74% 68%
3596%93%89%85%82%79% 75% 69%
3896%93%89%86%83%80% 76% 71%

Heat index

Dry bulb temperature in °C
Relative humidity 212427282930313235
60% 21242829.5 32 33 35 38 46
70%21252930.7 34 35 37 41 51
80%22263032.1 36 38 40 4558
90%22263133.7 39 41 43 5064
100%22273335.6 42 44 49 54 72

Heat risk for exercise

Effective temperature in °C:Risk level
Less than 32 °CLow risk: Safe to exercise with proper hydration
32 °C to 41 °CModerate risk: Heat cramps or heat exhaustion likely
Above 41 °CHigh risk: Heat stroke likely.