White Dwarf Stars: Formation, Structure, and Evolution - Lecture 2

White Dwarf Stars: Formation, Structure, and Evolution - Lecture 2

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Pressure of a Fermi gas at T=0 K

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Pressure of a Fermi gas at T=0 K

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White Dwarf Stars: Formation, Structure, and Evolution - Lecture 2

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  1. 1 AM
  2. 2 White Dwarf Stars Lecture - 02
  3. 3 Quantum Stars
  4. 4 What are the stars? and Why are they as they are? Condensed Stars
  5. 5 The strange companion of Sirius!
  6. 6 Are such super-dense stars doomed?
  7. 7 What will happen to the star when the nuclear reactor at its center fails?
  8. 8 Sir Ralph Howard Fowler 1889-1994
  9. 9 Quantum Physics
  10. 10 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
  11. 11 White Dwarfs are Quantum Stars
  12. 12 White Dwarfs are for ever!
  13. 13 Enter Chandra: 1928
  14. 14 Radiation Pressure
  15. 15 Hydrostatic Equilibrium
  16. 16 Classical Physics All momentum values are allowed.
  17. 17 Consider motion in one dimension. Let the electron be confined to a length L.
  18. 18 Pauli's exclusion principle allows us to put two fermions in a cell in phase space.
  19. 19 Fermi Momentum
  20. 20 Fermi Energy
  21. 21 Pressure of an ideal classical gas
  22. 22 Pressure of a Fermi gas at T=0 K
  23. 23 Chandrasekhar's Theory of White Dwarfs
  24. 24 Chandrasekhar's Theory of White Dwarfs 1930
  25. 25 Mass - Radius Relation for White Dwarfs S. Chandrasekhar, 1930
  26. 26 Stars of all mass will find their ultimate peace as Quantum Stars supported by the pressure of electrons
  27. 27 History is made
  28. 28 Relativistic Fermi Gas
  29. 29 Fermi Energy
  30. 30 Fermi Energy: Ultra relativistic particles
  31. 31 Relativistic White Dwarfs
  32. 32 A fully relativistic WD has no radius! But it has a unique mass!
  33. 33 Chandrasekhar Limit
  34. 34 White Dwarfs in the sky!
  35. 35 How does Nature make white dwarfs?
  36. 36 Deep inside the star
  37. 37 To burn or not to burn? That is the question
  38. 38 Ideal Gas Core
  39. 39 Fully Degenerate Core
  40. 40 Classical or Quantum?
  41. 41 The fate of the contracting core
  42. 42 Low Mass Stars
  43. 43 Gravo-Thermal Catastrophe
  44. 44 Red Giant Star
  45. 45 Contracting helium core
  46. 46 Helium Flash in the degenerate core
  47. 47 The Helium Bomb!
  48. 48 The Degenerate Carbon Core
  49. 49 Red Supergiant Star
  50. 50 A White Dwarfs is born
  51. 51 Diamonds in the sky!
  52. 52 The progenitors of white dwarfs
  53. 53 Diamonds are not for ever!
  54. 54 Chandrasekhar Limit
  55. 55 Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC
  56. 56 The matter of which the heavens are made is imperishable, and thus not subject to generation or corruption
  57. 57 Sir Arthur Eddington, at the meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in London in 1935.
  58. 58 The Violent Universe
  59. 59 Q&A

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