Astronomy Extra Credit

AST Extra Credit

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For extra credit, I'll grant a certain number (TBA) of percentage points to one's total grade for the course for reading one of the following list of books (see me if you'd like to get some other appropriate book included on this list): Links provided to Amazon's site for convenience only.

Lisa Randall's Warped Passages
Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe
Kip Thorne's Black Holes & Time Warps
Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything
Simon Singh's The Big Bang
Steve Squyres' Roving Mars
Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (See a review of this book by a famous physicist)
Lawrence Krauss' The Physics of Star Trek

and giving a presentation to the class concerning its content. Given that multiple people may choose the same book, all those in the class reading the same book should coordinate (you can do a group project if you want, else just present different aspects). You must schedule your presentation with me by the date of the first test so that I know who is doing these extra credit projects.

Last updated January 31, 2006.

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