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pressure integral

(integral relating pressure to a gas's characteristics)

The pressure integral (used in modeling stellar structure) relates a gas's pressure to particle momenta and density.

        ∞
P = 1/3 ∫ nppv dp
        0

(If the particles have a variety of masses, then velocity is not related to momentum and evaluation is less straight forward, but I believe you can do each type of particle separately and sum the results.) This form applies to any particles with momenta, and can be applied photons for light pressure as well as molecules.


(mathematics,dynamics)
Further reading:
https://users.physics.unc.edu/~sheila/customstudyplaninfo/Qual1999_2012.pdf
https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~glatz/astr_112/lectures/notes5.pdf
https://www.irya.unam.mx/gente/j.arthur/ESTELAR/pols-chapter3-4-new.pdf
https://www.astro.ru.nl/~onnop/education/stev_utrecht_notes/chapter1-4.pdf
https://www.ucolick.org/~woosley/ay112-14/texts/pols11.pdf
http://eagle.phys.utk.edu/guidry/astro411/lectures/starLect.pdf

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