Expanding universe

Questions
1) UV radiation from hydrogen in laboratory is found to have a wavelength of 2.47 x 10
15

Hz. The same type of radiation coming to Earth from hydrogen atoms in interstellar space
is found to have a frequency of 2.44 x 10
15
Hz. Are the atoms approaching or receding
from the earth. Justify your answer. Calculate the speed of the atoms relative to the earth.
2) Yellow light from a sodium lamp has a wavelength of 5.9 x 10
7
m when measured in
the laboratory. A distant galaxy that is moving away from the earth with a speed of 3 x
10
7
m/s is emitting light from the sodium atoms. Calculate the wavelength of this light as
measured by an observer on earth.
3) A star is travelling with a speed of 1.5% the speed of light. Light of wavelength 7 x
10
7
m is emitted by the star. What is the frequency of this light when it reaches the
earth? Is it travelling towards or away from the earth. Justify your choice by refereeing to
the frequency?


4) Light of frequency 4. x 10
14
Hz is emitted from a galaxy that is moving away from us at
600000 m/s. Calculate:
(a) the frequency shift caused and,
(b) the observed frequency.

5) The hydrogen-alpha spectra line of a distant galaxy occurs at a wavelength of 680 nm. In the
laboratory this wavelength is 656 nm. Calculate the recessional radial velocity of the galaxy.
6) When you compare the spectrum of sodium from a faint star with the spectrum from sodium gas
produced in your lab on earth you find that the green absorption line normally seen at 589 nm is
now at 570 nm. Calculate the speed of the star relative to the earth. Is it red shifted or blue shifted
justify your choice?