Browsing Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy by Subject "Wave breaking"

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  • Tidal interactions between planets and stars 

    Barker, Adrian John (University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsSelwyn College, 2011-06-07)
    Since the first discovery of an extrasolar planet around a solar-type star, observers have detected over 500 planets outside the solar system. Many of these planets have Jovian masses and orbit their host stars in orbits ...