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PHYS 214 - Planets and Life


Schedule of assignments.


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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.

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