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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.
Firehose instability (a.k.a. hose instability), not to be confused with the similarly named Firehose instability in galactic dynamics; Fish instability, Free electron maser instability, Gyrotron instability, Helical (Helix) instability, Jeans instability, [23] [24] Magnetic buoyancy instability. Interchange instability (a.k.a. flute instability ...
Jeans Equation simulations place limits on the size of this halo. An example of such an analysis is given by the constraints that can be placed on the dark matter halo within the Milky Way. Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey measurements of our Galaxy, researchers were able to simulate the dark matter halo distribution using Jeans equations. [8]
The square root of the ratio is about 6. I dislike the formula here as it makes Jeans Mass for Bernard 68, 10.117 solar masses and Cambridge's formula makes Jeans Mass 1.662 solar masses assuming it is all molecular hydrogen not just mostly. Anyway, it is advertised in Wikipedia as a collapsing cloud a star that will be born in 200,000 years.
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
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.
Cool, dry air is very stable and resists vertical movement, which leads to good and generally clear weather. The greatest instability occurs when the air is moist and warm, as it is in the tropical regions in the summer. Typically, thunderstorms appear on a daily basis in these regions due to the instability of the surrounding air.