Calculating the age of the Earth and the Sun

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Jul 2002

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Physics Education, Volume 37, Issue 4, pp. 296-305 (2002).

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Physics Education

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Calculations at high school level can be used to show how Newton estimated the age of the Earth from the cooling of a hot body and later Helmholtz and Kelvin applied thermodynamic arguments to finding the ages of both the Sun and the Earth. Finding the Sun to be younger than the Earth was a puzzle until the discovery of radioactivity and the Sun's true source of power.

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