Sunday, March 10, 2013

Lifetimes of Main-Sequence Stars

I am very fascinated by lifetimes.  This includes everything in which has a lifetime, from particles, to insects, to trees, to stars.

The diversity of lifetimes is amazing! Particles exist for merely fractions of a second and then stars can exist for billions of years!

I have given much thought to comparing lifetimes and masses of things, and thus decided to learn more about the masses of main-sequence stars and how this relates to their lifetimes.

Below is a mathematica simulation demonstrating the manipulation of the following equation, which outputs the lifetime of a main-sequence star based on its mass  :

Where t_ms= lifetime






This is a preview of the simulation and plot of Lifetime vs Mass of Main-Sequence Stars.




Very interesting isn't it?



To explore the simulation, you can download the file via the following links:

Mathematica file

cdf file


Can someone please validate my efforts and leave a comment?!! :) tyvm


2 comments:

  1. This looks a lot like our homework. Thanks for the Mathematica preview. I don't have Mathematica so I can't do the simulations.

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