Astro 5 - PowerPoint PDF's

These are always undergoing fine tuning, so be sure to download and study them afresh, right before the exams. There are purple slides in many of these; purple slides have material which is more advanced or supplementary, not material from which I make exam questions. Also, pay special attention to the RED SLIDE (key points) that ends each PowerPoint. These too are very important for studying for exams.

Title
pdf's
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Introduction to the Course, a few basics  
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Princples of Clear Thinking (and related website version for general classes)
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On Teaching (website)
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What is Life?
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Discussion: "Life, Will We Know It When We See It?"
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The Beginnings and Evolution of Life on Earth - The Key Moments and Puzzles pdf  
Eric Smith's Insights and Hypothesis: "Inevitable Life"? pdf  
Gaia or Medea - Does Life Insure Itself a Livable Long Term Planet? pdf  
How Carbon Moves Through a Planetary System, Implications for Life pdf  
Intelligent Alien Life and Their Civilization: The Thermodynamics of Civilizations - the Great Filter? pdf  
Life on Our Neighbors in the Solar System? pdf  
The Milky Way Galaxy and its Stars - Where might Life be? pdf  
The Bizarre Interstellar Object Oumuamua: Alien spacecraft?
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Inflation, Accelerating Universe, the Multiverse, Why Our Universe is Life-Suitable
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Advanced Galactic Life: Type I, II, III Civilizations and Observational Tests, SETI pdf  
The Drake Equation: Classic Simplified Early Version from Frank Drake (first half)
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The Drake Equation - Modern Refinements from "Rare Earth" and other studies (second half)
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Course Summary
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Earth advanced life, Future Earth climate change and life, extinction
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Life in the Universe (This is supplementary; from Astro 3)
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