AS102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neutrino
Document Summary
Using powerful computers scientists use information we do know about the sun and physics to develop programs that generate theoretical models of the sun"s interior temperature and pressure profiles as well as other solar properties that we can measure. Such predictions have turned out to be correct and this gives us confidence that we really do know what"s going on inside the sun. Although the surface of the sun appears, to the novice, to be perfectly smooth and uniform, we now know that it is anything but that. Using doppler technology we can study the surface of the sun to see its various vibrational modes, which make the surface look something like that in the picture shown here. This information allows us to learn much about the solar interior. As discussed above, the initial problem with the detection of the number of solar neutrinos has now been sorted out, thanks to the outcome of experiments at sno in.
