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| Jan30-13, 12:41 PM | #1 |
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Pressure gradient in Jeans Lenght
All the demonstrations on Jeans instability start with:
[itex]\rho g \ge \nabla P[/itex] Then they substitute [itex]\nabla P[/itex] with [itex]nkT/R[/itex]. But from ideal gas law: [itex]PV = nkT[/itex], so [itex]P = nkT/V = nkT/R^3[/itex] (I'm not interested in proportionality factors, so let's not bother about [itex]4/3 \pi[/itex], ecc...) Now, gradient of [itex]P[/itex], to me, means to derivate with respect to [itex]R[/itex]. Hence: [itex]\nabla P = nkT/R^4[/itex] (again, not interested in proportionality factors) So, here's the problem: On demonstrations: [itex]\nabla P = nkT/R[/itex] To me: [itex]\nabla P = nkT/R^4[/itex] Obviously, it's plain i'm missing something, still i can't see what it is. (I apologize for my poor scholastic english, i'm not native speaker) |
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