Provide comprehensive answers to the following questions. Remember to support your arguments where necessary by websites and pictures.
1. Why would you not plot sound waves in the electromagnetic spectrum
2. If you had limited funds to build a large telescope, which type would you choose, a refractor or a reflector? Why?
3. Why do optical astronomers often put their telescopes at the mountain top, while radio astronomers sometimes put their telescope in deep valleys?
4. How is the phenomenon of chromatic aberration related to how a prism spectrograph works?
5. What is the unit Angstrom? How many meters make 1 Angstrom?
6. Why is the binding energy of an electron related to the size of its orbit?
7. Explain why ionized Calcium can form absorption lines, but ionized hydrogen cannot?
8. Why do hot stars look bluer than cool stars?
9. Why does the amount of blackbody radiation emitted depend on the temperature of the object?
10. What is a quantum jump?
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