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The Jeans mass is named after the British physicist Sir James Jeans, who considered the process of gravitational collapse within a gaseous cloud. He was able to show that, under appropriate conditions, a cloud, or part of one, would become unstable and begin to collapse when it lacked sufficient gaseous pressure support to balance the force of gravity.
Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS [1] (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946 [2]) was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer.He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.
Helical kink instability (a.k.a. helical instability) Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI, a.k.a. gravitational instability) Rotating instability, [30] Tearing mode instability (or resistive tearing instability [31]) Two-stream instability (a.k.a. beam-plasma instability, counter-streaming instability) Beam acoustic instability; Bump-on-tail ...
Comparison of Rayleigh–Jeans law with Wien approximation and Planck's law, for a body of 5800 K temperature.. In physics, the Rayleigh–Jeans law is an approximation to the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation as a function of wavelength from a black body at a given temperature through classical arguments.
After the instability has run its course, the system is typically "hotter" (the motions are more random) or rounder than before. Instabilities in stellar systems include: Bar instability of rapidly rotating disks; Jeans instability; Firehose instability [4] Gravothermal instability [5] Radial-orbit instability
In the second quarter of 2015, version 5 of the extension for Firefox was rebased using Mozilla's Add-ons SDK (previous versions used XUL). Firefox Quantum ceased support for extensions that use XUL or the Add-ons SDK [6] so the extension was rebased using WebExtensions APIs. As a result of Mozilla's changes, reliance upon the companion ...
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This figure represents the evolution of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability from small wavelength perturbations at the interface (a) which grow into the ubiquitous mushroom shaped spikes (fluid structures of heavy into light fluid) and bubbles (fluid structures of light into heavy fluid) (b) and these fluid structures interact due to bubble merging and competition (c) eventually developing into ...