Ch 08-03 The Interior of the Sun

• Energy sources
  Gravitational? chemical? nuclear?
   
• Major nuclear reactions inside the Sun
  
  [The p-p chain]
  
  
  [The CNO cycle]
  
   
  [Nuclear binding energy]
  
   
  
• Computation of stellar structure and evolution
  
  
  
   
  
   
• Helioseismology
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  Link to the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG); check also the SOHO instrument MDI/SOI web site at Stanford University
   
• The (solved) solar neutrino problem
  
  
  You may also check the web site of Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.