ESS105H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Coronal Mass Ejection, Outback, Solar Wind
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6. geology of the solar system: solar system, the sun. 109 x diameter, and 333,000 x mass, of earth. Burns hydrogen to helium ( e = mc2 means small amount of mass converts into a lot of energy) Temperature at surface 5,800 k, at center 15 million k convection causes surface granulation (cells) 44 (1 / 4) - convection causes surface granulation (cells: solar system sunspots: 44 (2 / 4) : solar system sunspots: ~10,000 km across (red center, orange ring) Fast-moving (1million km/hr) gas in corona is continually escaping. During sunspot maximum: coronal mass ejections ( space weather ) 44 (4 / 4) - physical principles: gravity and momentum gravity principles. Orbit of planet is an ellipse with sun at one focus. Line joining planet and sun sweeps out. Planets siderial period increases with semimajor axis period p semimajor axis a. [years] equal areas in equal increments of time planet.
