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Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • use mathematical models to calculate properties of protoplanetary discs
  • understand the core-accretion scenario for the growth of planetary cores from smaller components
  • understand the disc-instability scenario for the formation of planets from a circumstellar disc
  • describe how planets migrate and interact after forming
  • appreciate how planet formation models can explain the observed exoplanet population.
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