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MOD 3·LECTURE 2
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  1. Foundations
    1. Spoiler Alerts
    2. Tools of the Trade
    3. Gravity and Orbits
    4. Light as Information
  2. Discovering the HR Diagram
    1. Distance & Parallax
    2. Surface Flux & Colors of Stars
    3. Spectra & Composition
    4. Weighing Stars
    5. The HR Diagram
  3. How Stars Work
    1. Ages & Lifetimes
    2. The Balancing Act — Hydrostatic Equilibrium
    3. Nuclear Fusion and the Four Forces
    4. Radiation Transport
    5. The Stellar Blueprint
  4. How Stars Live and Die
    1. The Boundaries of Stardom
    2. After the Main Sequence
    3. The Quantum Limit
    4. The Death of Giants
    5. The Final States
  5. Galaxies & Cosmology
    1. Galaxies as Ecosystems
    2. Weighing the Invisible
    3. The Expanding Universe
    4. What the Universe Is Made Of
    5. The First Three Minutes

The Balancing Act — Hydrostatic Equilibrium

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