Making our WORLD

Making our World

Table of Contents
of the GS265-1996 CyberText project at the University of Michigan

1. Introduction

- Ben van der Pluijm

2. The Big Bang: It sure was BIG - Chris LaRocco and Blair Rothstein

3. The soup that would be a star - Paul Brown and Jeff Haaz

4. Stellar evolution: The life and death of our luminous neighbors - Arthur Holland and Mark Williams

5. Our Sun's planets - Anu Gupta and Amit Kalaria

6. Back to the future: An inquiry of the history and nature of time - Roger Cohen and Robb Zerner

7. Spheres of influence: The Earth's differentiation into solid, liquid and gas layers - Neil Sitron and Dan Goldstein

8. Planet Earth: Probing beyond the surface - Rebecca Hotz and Kristen Schmidt

9. The Earth's magnetism

- David Fiedrich

10. The violent Earth - Tina Chow and Sean Dooley

11. It is hot. It is cold. It is climate - Chad Muszynski and Kia Berry

12. The good earth: Harvesting Earth's resources - Michele Menuck and Abby Goldstein

13. Our delicate environment: Finding ways to sustain civilization - Josh Rosen and Michael Schmidt

14. Coda - Ben van der Pluijm

Peer evaluations of the chapters

Some useful links:

Space constants and equations (NASA)

Fundamental physical constants (NIST)

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