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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHY 152 - Stars, Planets, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Science in Engaged Community Science of Natural World
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Introduction to the science of the Sun and stars - their properties, energy-making processes, formation, and life histories - plus analysis of two societal issues: the viability of solar power (both sunlight and thermonuclear-fusion) as a means of terrestrial energy production; and the question of whether life exists on planets elsewhere in the universe.
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