Homework 10: Due November 14

1. What determines the form of the corpse of a star (i.e. whether it is a white dwarf, neutron star or black hole)?
2. What property of a pulsar sets it apart from other neutron stars?
3. If the Sun were removed from the center of the solar system, and replaced with a 1 solar mass black hole, what would happen to the solar system?
4. Put the following in order of size:
   1. Atom
   2. Neutrino
   3. Universe
   4. Galaxy
   5. Solar system
   6. Star
   7. Planet