Princeton University - Imagining Other Earths
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Imagining Other Earths at Coursera Overview
Duration | 26 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Imagining Other Earths at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Imagining Other Earths at Coursera Course details
- Are we alone? This course introduces core concepts in astronomy, biology, and planetary science that enable the student to speculate scientifically about this profound question and invent their own solar systems.
- All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.
Imagining Other Earths at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction
Welcome
Course Overview
Keep in Touch
Introduction
Planets, Stars and the Milky Way
From Galaxies to the Big Bang
Introduction
The Main Components
How Do We Know it When We See it?
Why is Mercury Hot?
Physics Overview
Energy Conservation and the Temperature of Planets
Habitable Zone and Goldilocks
Albedo and the Faint Sun Problem
Feedbacks and Stability
Snowball Earth
Bulk Properties of Materials
Kinetic Theory
Hydrostatic Equilibrium
Mercury and Venus
Mercury
Magnetic Fields
Venus
Interview with Sean Solomon
Basics
Mars and Water
Our Past and Our Future?
Basics
Craters
Tides
Small Bodies of the Solar System
Comets and Asteroids
Solar System Moons
Saturn
Kepler?s Laws and Search for Extrasolar Planets Part I
Kepler?s Laws and Search for Extrasolar Planets Part II
Kepler?s Laws and Search for Extrasolar Planets Part III
Interview with Debra Fischer
Interview with Freeman Dyson
Transits of Venus
Extrasolar Transits
Exoplanet Zoo
Einstein and the Search for Planets
General Relativity
Microlensing
Stability
Interview with John Johnson
Basic Concepts
Properties of Light
Physical Properties
Stellar Structure
Nuclear Fusion
Evolution
Quantum Mechanics and Fingerprinting Planets
Height of Mountains
Atoms
Jupiter and Brown Dwarfs
Optics and Light
Telescopes
Imaging Planets
Interview with Emily Rauscher
Angular Momentum
Protoplanetary Disks
Diversity of Planetary Systems
Biochemistry of Life
Simple Ingredients
Amino Acids to Proteins
Proteins to Cells
Synthesizing Life
Origin of Cells
Extraterrestrial Origin?
Inevitability of Evolution
Sex and its Alternatives
Tree of Life
Yellowstone National Park
Other Examples
Evolution and Astrobiology
Extinctions
Dinosaurs
The Other Four Great Extinctions
Fate of Humanity
The Faint Sun Problem
Goldilocks Problem
Habitable Zone
SETI
Interstellar Travel
Fermi Paradox
Interview with Tullis Onstott
Interview with Lisa Kaltenegger
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