Study Guide for the 2nd midterm
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Formation of planets in the Solar System
Snow line; terrestial vs jovian planets
Debris; comets, asteroids; cratering
Tidal disruption of satellites; planetary rings;
Tidal heating; Io
Extra solar systems; tests of nebular theory
Radioactivity; half-life; the age of Solar System
Heat of formation, differentiation
Earth; plate techtonics, volcanos, outgassing
Terrestrial atmospheres, escape velocity
Earth's atmopsphere: N2, O2, CO2
Photo-dissociation
Carbon cycle; significance of liquid water 
Greenhouse effect; new carbon vs old carbon
Jovian planets (gas giants), fast spin, rotational flattening
Pressure; 
Formation of Earth's moon
The Sun
Photosphere; chromosphere; corona; wind
Nuclear fusion in the core
Exclusion principle; uncertainty principle; tunneling
Neutrinos
Convection; solar granulation
Sunspots; magnetic field; 11 & 22 year cycles
Rotation of the Sun
Magnetic field of the Earth 
Stars
Parallax, measuing stellar properties
luminosity, temperature, radii
Star Binaries and measuring star masses
HR diagram; main sequence
Lifetimes of stars; ages of stellar clusters
Pulsating stars, Cepheids, standard candles