8th Bangladesh Astro-Olympiad 2013

Final Round

May 5, 2013

Organized by: Bangladesh Astronomical Association

In co-operation with : Biggan Andolon Moncho, Gongaforing

Full Marks: 90

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Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

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Instruction for the Candidate:

The candidate must write his/her personal information and registration number on the answer script.
The candidate must answer all the four sections.
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1. Write short note on the following items. (10 marks)

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a) Photon ( ) b) Quark ( ) c) Radian ( ) d) Radio waves ( )

e) Scale height ( )
2. In a full moon night, when the moon was overhead assume that if you placed 100 ml milk in a
dish of size 25cm diameter for 10 minutes. Assume that density of milk is similar to the water, its
specific heat capacity is 0.9 times that of water and heat loss from the milk to surroundings is
negligible. Assume that full Moon reflects about 14% of the sunlight incident on its surface.
What will be the change of temperature caused by the light received from the moon? (10 marks)
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3. Imagine a large satellite, about 100 km in diameter, orbiting the Sun at a distance of 1 AU.
How fast is this satellite traveling? (7 marks)
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4. Moshiur was doing an experiment with a lens in his Physics lab. He kept a reference object at
several positions and noted corresponding image sizes and positions. The same are shown in the
diagram below. Unfortunately, he forgot to label the object and image positions and to mention
details about the lens. Help his teacher to make sense of his drawing by finding type of lens
(convex/concave), its position and its focal length. In the diagram, O stands for object and I for
image. All lengths and heights are to scale. (8 marks)
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5. Shahreer was running and noted distance traveled by him at various intervals. Find his
acceleration and initial velocity by plotting graph. In the table, time (t) is in minutes and distance
(d) is in meters. (7 marks)
t
2
4
6
8
10

d
21
60
117
192
285

t
12
14
16
18
20

d
396
525
672
837
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6. Mou fabricated a sphere of radius R, which is hollow on the inside and has perfectly
reflecting. This sphere had a small hole in it. Mou sent a ray of light through this hole. It hit a
plane mirror, kept at an angle of 45 with the incident ray, at some point beyond the centre of the
sphere, but before reaching the opposite end. After undergoing one more reflection at the inner
surface of the sphere, the ray came out from the hole. Find the distance from the centre of the
sphere to the point where it struck the plane mirror. (10 marks)
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7. Find the distance between the two points. (8 marks)

First point: Statue of Liberty (40.6892, -74.0444)
Second point: Eiffel Tower (48.8583, 2.2945)
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8. Answer following questions in 3 to 4 lines each. (9 marks)

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(a) Rocky has taken a high zoom photograph of a sun-spot. The photo does not include any part
of the disk outside sun-spot. What will be the predominant colour seen in the photograph? Why?
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(b) What will happen to the Moon if the Earth vanishes suddenly? Why?
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(c) On a full Moon day, with respect to an observer on the Earth, does the Moon move faster
during the day time or the during night time? Why?
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9. Tick the correct answer. 50% marks deduction for wrong answer. (10 marks)
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(a) The displacement-time graph for two cyclists is as shown.

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Their relative velocity ( )

I) Zero ( ) II) Constant ( ) III) First decreases then increases ( , )
IV) First increases then decreases ( , )
(b) When the moon is at 900 east of the sun, it will rise
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I) In the morning ()
III) In the evening ( )

II) At noon ( )
IV) At midnight ()

(c) If x+y=1, the largest value of xy=?

x+y=1 , xy ?
I) 0
II) 0.25
III) 0.50

IV) 0.75

(d) The north celestial pole lies in the constellation of

I) Ursa Major ( )
III) Cassiopeia ( )

II) Ursa Minor ( )

IV) Draco ( )

(e) If the sun emits radiation of wavelength at rate L watt, no of photons emitted per second is
L ,

I) L/hc

II) L/hc

III) hc/L

IV) hc/L

10. Two photographs given here show a small region inside the constellation of Orion. The
photographs are taken exactly 2 months apart. The grid in the image has the size of 1010. By
spectroscopy, it was realized that the emission line of hydrogen (Rest wavelength 21.1 cm)
emitted by this cloud was showing up at 21.0789 cm wavelength.
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(a) In how many months (after the second image) the cloud will entirely cover the belt of Orion?
(3 marks)
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(b) Is the cloud headed directly for the solar system? Why? (1 mark)
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(c) If yes, then in how many months (after the second image) the cloud will arrive at the earth? If
no, what will be the closest separation between the cloud and the earth? Assume the cloud to
have uniform velocity throughout the journey. (2 marks)
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(d) If this cloud is placed at the exact centre of the solar system, determine which planets will be
engulfed by the cloud? (5 marks)
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Note: The expression of relativistic Doppler effect is given by