Chapter 3: The Degenerate Age
Due 25 Mar 2004, 8 AM
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Why are they called "neutron stars"?
What happens to most normal stars, as individuals, when two galaxies collide? Why?
Why do white dwarfs glow?
Nuclear fusion in the core
Magnetic turbulence
They spin very quickly
They're very hot
Some other questions you might find useful:
- Why does degeneracy limit the temperature of a star?
- Why are higher mass white dwarfs smaller than low-mass dwarfs?
- Why is there an upper limit to white dwarf mass?
- Is there a limit to neutron star mass?
- Can a white dwarf be turned into a neutron star?
- How are supermassive black holes made?
- Why do galaxies evaporate?
- Why don't all colliding white dwarfs explode?
- Give three ways protons might decay.
- Why does proton decay take so long?
- When does cold fusion happen?
- What does it mean to "lift degeneracy"?
- What is the final state of a star (i.e. what happens to it)?
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explained in more depth? What questions would you ask to see if the
reader had grasped the most important concepts in the chapter?
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