\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. 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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{4} \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Everything}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{How does critical density relate to universe? \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) ⁃ Basically how much matter is there per cubic cm \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 2) ⁃ If enough, enough gravity to recollpase \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1) ⁃ If not, Universe could go on expanding forever \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 2) ⁃ Dark energy - seals the fate of the universe and an expansive body \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 2) Accretion \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 1) ⁃ Binary star: material could fall of companion onto pair star \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 2) ⁃ doesn't fall straight in, spirals in and forms disk around the star \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 2) ⁃ accretion disk ... holding pattern until it falls into star \newline % Row Count 15 (+ 2) Milky Way size \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 1) ⁃ 100k light year across \newline % Row Count 17 (+ 1) How do we detect exosolar planets? \newline % Row Count 18 (+ 1) ⁃ same as binary stars \newline % Row Count 19 (+ 1) ⁃ direct detection: take a picture, hard because light gets swamped \newline % Row Count 21 (+ 2) ⁃ transit method: if things are lined up, exoplanet will cross in front of star and block a portion of light (very tiny) \newline % Row Count 24 (+ 3) ⁃ spectroscopic method: cross star, but doesn't block light \newline % Row Count 26 (+ 2) ⁃ star wobbles a little bit due to the gravity of the star (doppler shift) \newline % Row Count 28 (+ 2) Cosmic module principal \newline % Row Count 29 (+ 1) ⁃ the universe is the same every and in all direction (does not differ greatly anywhere) \newline % Row Count 31 (+ 2) } \tn \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Everything (cont)}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{ ⁃ helps explain the structure of the universe \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) Brahe \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) ⁃ made telescope obvs to measure positions of planets \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 2) Copernicus \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) ⁃ first to say heliocentric \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 1) Keplar \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 1) ⁃ mathematical laws for the orbits \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 1) ⁃ used bra he's precise measurements \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 1) ⁃ ellipses and speed change as they changed distant \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 2) Galileo \newline % Row Count 12 (+ 1) ⁃ telescopic discoveries for keplar support \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 1) ⁃ TONS OF TELESCOPE OBSERVATION \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 1) Spiral structure \newline % Row Count 15 (+ 1) ⁃ spiral galaxies \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 1) ⁃ waves of higher and lower density that travel through disk \newline % Row Count 18 (+ 2) ⁃ higher density = spiral arms light up as stars form \newline % Row Count 20 (+ 2) Finding mass of a star \newline % Row Count 21 (+ 1) ⁃ in binary = easy \newline % Row Count 22 (+ 1) ⁃ in not binary = not easy \newline % Row Count 23 (+ 1) ⁃ infer in comparison to other stars \newline % Row Count 24 (+ 1) Doppler effect \newline % Row Count 25 (+ 1) ⁃ change in frequency or wavelength due to the relative motion of the source and observer \newline % Row Count 27 (+ 2) xray binary \newline % Row Count 28 (+ 1) ⁃ exist and due to transfer of energy from of one star to next, X-ray flares% Row Count 30 (+ 2) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Still Everything}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{• baryonic and non baryonic WIMPS \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) ⁃ baryonic suggestions are incomplete \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) ⁃ baryons are what we are made of (all atoms) \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 1) ⁃ non baryonic: things that are not made out of what we are made of (dark matter) \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 2) • cepheids \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 1) ⁃ stage of the stars life after the main sequence \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 2) ⁃ variable stars \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 1) ⁃ They have very particular patterns of change and variability \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 2) ⁃ luminosity is related to the period \newline % Row Count 12 (+ 1) • pulsars and neutron stars \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 1) ⁃ pulsars are neutron stars \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 1) ⁃ connected by very strong magnetic fields \newline % Row Count 15 (+ 1) ⁃ rotate very quickly \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 1) ⁃ if you tried to take normal stars and spin them that fast, they would pull apart \newline % Row Count 18 (+ 2) ⁃ radio waves are most common, optical light too and xray \newline % Row Count 20 (+ 2) • nova explosions and xray binary explosions \newline % Row Count 21 (+ 1) ⁃ very similar \newline % Row Count 22 (+ 1) ⁃ dump material onto surface of star = surface explosion \newline % Row Count 24 (+ 2) • young medium and old clusters when they turn off main sequence \newline % Row Count 26 (+ 2) ⁃ for the sun, 10 billion years it turns on to main sequence \newline % Row Count 28 (+ 2) • Low mass \newline % Row Count 29 (+ 1) ⁃ eject nebula, end up in white dawrf \newline % Row Count 30 (+ 1) } \tn \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Still Everything (cont)}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{• Galileo's experiment with velocity and acceleration \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 2) ⁃ rolled balls down a plain (demonstration in class) \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 2) • Hubble relation explain age of universe \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) ⁃ Several ways to think about it \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 1) ⁃ universe is expansion, hubble relation tells rate of expansion \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 2) ⁃ calculate how long ago expansion started which tells us distant \newline % Row Count 10 (+ 2) • Equilibrium in stars \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 1) ⁃ Gravitational and Hydrostatic equilibrium \newline % Row Count 12 (+ 1) ⁃ acts like a gas or a fluid \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 1) ⁃ Gravity tries to make the star contract \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 1) ⁃ Pressure is center is trying to slow down contraction \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 2) • Era's of the Universe \newline % Row Count 17 (+ 1) ⁃ First less than a second, particle era \newline % Row Count 18 (+ 1) ⁃ particles are being created or destroyed \newline % Row Count 19 (+ 1) ⁃ five minutes \newline % Row Count 20 (+ 1) ⁃ nucleosynthesis \newline % Row Count 21 (+ 1) ⁃ first 400k years, when universe becomes transparent \newline % Row Count 23 (+ 2) ⁃ radiation can flow freely throughout universe \newline % Row Count 25 (+ 2) ⁃ after that, stars begin to form \newline % Row Count 26 (+ 1) ⁃ cosmic microwave background \newline % Row Count 27 (+ 1) • Hubble relationship in graph form \newline % Row Count 28 (+ 1) ⁃ Velocity x Distant \newline % Row Count 29 (+ 1) ⁃ Straight line = hubble constant% Row Count 30 (+ 1) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Moar}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{• 1000 exoplanets \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) • Standard candle \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) ⁃ object who's luminosity before you measure the distant \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 2) • Greenhouse effect \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) ⁃ CO2 concentration in atmosphere increase, plants grow larger \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 2) ⁃ Plant grows larger, removes CO2, puts out O2 = NEGATIVE FEEDBACK \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 2) ⁃ Ice is a good reflector of sunlight, water is good absorber \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 2) ⁃ Temperature of earth rises, ice melts, less reflected and more absorbed \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 2) ⁃ warm the earth, melt more ice, make warmer = POSITIVE FEEDBACK \newline % Row Count 15 (+ 2) • Bootstrapping \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 1) ⁃ process of starting with one set of distance measurements and using it to progress \newline % Row Count 18 (+ 2) ⁃ measuring parallax using radar inside solar system by using size of earth's orbit \newline % Row Count 20 (+ 2) ⁃ once measured parallax, measure stars and clusters \newline % Row Count 22 (+ 2) • What is hubble constant? \newline % Row Count 23 (+ 1) ⁃ 70 km/sec/Mpc \newline % Row Count 24 (+ 1) ⁃ velocity for every km away from us, moving 70x that fast away from us \newline % Row Count 26 (+ 2) • Interactions of light and matter in respect to radiation \newline % Row Count 28 (+ 2) ⁃ light can scatter off of matter (blue sky) \newline % Row Count 29 (+ 1) ⁃ absorb light (photons disappear) \newline % Row Count 30 (+ 1) } \tn \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Moar (cont)}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{ ⁃ produce light and photons (excite atoms in a gas) \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 2) ⁃ bend light (refraction) \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 1) • Equilibrium of stars \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1) ⁃ amount of energy created = energy flowing out of star \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 2) ⁃ have to stay in balance or star will heat up or cool down and mess up star \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 2) • Filaments (cluster of galaxies) \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 1) ⁃ 3d spider web = filaments are lines and thread of web \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 2) ⁃ basically where galaxies and stars are heavily concentrated \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 2) • Wiens law / Greenhouse \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 1) ⁃ wavelength at which most of the radiation comes out = temperature \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 2) ⁃ our atmosphere absorbs infrared, radiation gets trapped but sun's radiation (sunlight) reaches the earth \newline % Row Count 19 (+ 3) ⁃ earth heats up because infrared is being trapped \newline % Row Count 21 (+ 2) • Dark matter evidence \newline % Row Count 22 (+ 1) ⁃ measured velocity of objects orbiting milky way \newline % Row Count 24 (+ 2) ⁃ how much mass do you need/gravity to keep object in orbit \newline % Row Count 26 (+ 2) ⁃ not enough present, has to be something else that has mass \newline % Row Count 28 (+ 2) ⁃ gravitational lensing \newline % Row Count 29 (+ 1) ⁃ light bends under influence of gravity \newline % Row Count 30 (+ 1) } \tn \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Moar (cont)}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{ ⁃ gravity distorts images more than there is present, must have dark matter \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 2) ⁃ clusters of galaxies are filled with hot gas \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 1) ⁃ why doesn't it escape? moving very fast \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1) ⁃ more gravity than should be present% Row Count 5 (+ 1) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Moarrr}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{• Dark energy existence \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) ⁃ universe is accelerating \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) ⁃ shouldn't be accelerating unless acted on by separate force \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 2) • Energy sources \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) ⁃ Certain labs will help explain \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 1) ⁃ Release gravitational energy to create heat \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 1) ⁃ waterfall, gravity pulls water down which creates electrical energy \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 2) ⁃ Chemical energy -{}-\textgreater{} heat \newline % Row Count 10 (+ 1) ⁃ burning \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 1) ⁃ nuclear energy \newline % Row Count 12 (+ 1) ⁃ nuclear reactions to create heat or kinetic \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 1) ⁃ kinetic energy \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 1) ⁃ motion energy \newline % Row Count 15 (+ 1) ⁃ potential energy \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 1) ⁃ springs \newline % Row Count 17 (+ 1) • Motions of spiral galaxy \newline % Row Count 18 (+ 1) ⁃ motions in disk are orderly \newline % Row Count 19 (+ 1) ⁃ motions in bulge are random and spontaneous \newline % Row Count 20 (+ 1) • Measuring composition \newline % Row Count 21 (+ 1) ⁃ spectral lines \newline % Row Count 22 (+ 1) • Black holes and time \newline % Row Count 23 (+ 1) ⁃ all clocks slow down when nearing a black hole \newline % Row Count 25 (+ 2) ⁃ distorts time \newline % Row Count 26 (+ 1) • Black hole at the center of a galaxy \newline % Row Count 27 (+ 1) ⁃ orbit of stars \newline % Row Count 28 (+ 1) ⁃ something dark with TONS of mass at center \newline % Row Count 29 (+ 1) ⁃ no light being emitted at center \newline % Row Count 30 (+ 1) } \tn \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Moarrr (cont)}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{ • schwarzchild radius \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) ⁃ radius from which light cannot escape \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) • Olber's paradox \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 1) ⁃ if universe is infinite in space and time, if i go out in a direction, i will eventually hit a bright star \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 3) ⁃ sky should be bright, then \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 1) ⁃ the universe is finite in time, i.e. BIG BANG \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 2) • matter vs antimatter \newline % Row Count 10 (+ 1) ⁃ antimatter exists, we see it during nuclear reaction \newline % Row Count 12 (+ 2) ⁃ counterpart to matter with opposite charges \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 1) ⁃ very limited in nature \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 1) ⁃ weird because in physics b/c antimatter and matter should be equal \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 2) • andromeda nebula? \newline % Row Count 17 (+ 1) ⁃ didn't know it was a galaxy, classified as nebulae \newline % Row Count 19 (+ 2) ⁃ hubble discovered that it was far away and as big as our Milky Way \newline % Row Count 21 (+ 2) • High Mass vs Low Mass \newline % Row Count 22 (+ 1) ⁃ High mass ends in supernovae explosions \newline % Row Count 23 (+ 1) ⁃ Low Mass turn into white dwarf \newline % Row Count 24 (+ 1) ⁃ Binary stars can gain matter from other stars \newline % Row Count 26 (+ 2) • CDMS lab searches \newline % Row Count 27 (+ 1) ⁃ One of the ways we look for dark matter \newline % Row Count 28 (+ 1) • Telescopes \newline % Row Count 29 (+ 1) ⁃ size goes up, collecting area goes up\textasciicircum{}2 \newline % Row Count 30 (+ 1) } \tn \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Moarrr (cont)}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{3.833cm}}{ ⁃ bigger telescope = better resolution% Row Count 1 (+ 1) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}