PHYS 214 - Planets and Life
Schedule of assignments.
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soon as possible.
Assignment 1: Angular sizes, Hubble's
Law, distances and magnitudes.
Assignment 2: Fusion in stars, luminosity of stars,
habitable zones, formation of the solar system.
Assignment 3: Kepler's Laws of Planetary
motion, Doppler detections of extrasolar planets, Astrometric
detections of Earth-Sun like systems.
Assignment 4: Alternative codon
sequences & energetics of bollide impacts in relation to extinction
events.
