astronomy

Scaling Relations and Stellar Evolution Scaling relations provide insight and fast, "back of the envelope' analysis (ok, so yesterday's 'back of the envelope' is today's 'on the real estate of a smartphone screen'). Another description of this approach is 'dimensional analysis. Let's step through an example: derive an approximate relationship that links the mass of a star with its luminosity (the mass-luminosity relation) ..... I will post the work here so that you can go and check it. If you do not have good rates, I will ignore you