Concept

Jeans instability

Related lectures (4)

Explores star formation through Jeans mass, collapse, free fall time, and gravitational contraction in astrophysics.

Jeans' Radius and Mass: Introduction to Astrophysics

Explores Jeans' radius and mass, free-fall time, and gravitational contraction in astrophysics.

Explores quantum fluctuations, inflation prediction, cosmological parameters, and structure formation in the universe, including dark matter instabilities and N-body simulations.

Stellar Formations: Jeans Mass and Radius

Explores the conditions for gravitational collapse and the life time of stars through fusion processes.