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    Worksheet – Redshift and Big Bang 16th April 2024

    1. What is redshift?

    2. How does redshift provide evidence that the Universe is expanding?

    3. Describe the Big Bang theory?

    4. The shift in wavelength can be identified using spectral lines in an absorption spectrum. The following
    absorption spectrum is generated using light from a source in a laboratory:

    Sketch the spectrum obtained using light from a galaxy moving away from the Earth.

    5. The figure below shows the spectrum of light received on the Earth from the Sun and from a star in a
    distant galaxy.
    The spectrum contains some characteristic dark lines, which occur at very specific wavelengths in the
    laboratory.
    Explain how the shift in the position of the dark lines provides evidence to support the Big Bang theory.

    6. Describe the observations of distant galaxies compared to closer galaxies and discuss what this tells us
    about theuniverse.

    7. Hubble determined the speed of galaxies by measuring the redshift of dark lines in the light being
    emitted by the galaxies.
    Explain how red-shift affects the wavelength and frequencies of these lines as observed from the Earth.

    8. Scientists can use the visible light spectrum from distant stars to determine whether the stars are moving.
    The visible light spectrum from stars includes dark lines at specific wavelengths.
    The diagram shows the visible light spectrum from the Sun and from four other stars, A, B, C and D.
    Which star, A, B, C or D, is moving away from the Earth?

    How does the speed of star B compare with the speed of star D?

    9. A teacher demonstrates the production of circular waves in a ripple tank.


    Diagram 1 shows the waves at an instant in time.
    a) Show on Diagram 1 the wavelength of the waves.

    (b) The teacher moves the source of the waves across the ripple tank.
    Diagram 2 shows the waves at an instant in time.

    (c) Use the correct answer from the box to complete each sentence.

    In Diagram 2, the observed wavelength of the waves at X has________________________

    In Diagram 2, the frequency of the waves at X has ______________________________

    (d) The teacher uses the waves in the ripple tank to model the changes in the wavelengths of
    light observed from distant galaxies.
    When observed from the Earth, there is an increase in the wavelength of light from distant
    galaxies.

    (i) State the name of this effect.

    (ii) What does this increase in wavelength tell us about the movement of most galaxies?

    (iii) Explain how this observation supports the Big Bang theory of the formation of the
    Universe. (4 points expected)

    (iv) State one other piece of evidence that supports the Big Bang theory of the formation
    of the Universe.

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