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You should be familiar with the following terms:
- heavy elements
- differential rotation
- solar cycle
- “surface”
- atmosphere
- photosphere
- chromosphere
- transition region
- corona
- granulation
- shock wave
- sunspot
- sunspot’s umbra
- sunspot’s penumbra
- solar flare
- solar prominence
- solar prominence (eruptive)
- coronal mass ejection (CME)
- aurora borealis
- aurora australis
- solar wind
- coronal holes
- sunspot number
- solar minimum
- solar maximum
- Maunder minimum
- “Little Ice Age”
- Annie Maunder
- E. Walter Maunder
- magnetic polarity
- magnetic dynamo
- solar activity
- supercomputer
- hydrostatic equilibrium
- ideal gas law
- mass density
- radiation pressure
- nuclear fusion
- nuclear fission
- positron
- electron
- photon
- antimatter
- nucleon
- lepton
- neutrino
- muon
- tau
- proton-proton chain
- deuterium
- quantum mechanical tunneling
- convection zone
- radiation
- nuclear core
- Raymond Davis
- solar neutrino problem
- helioseismology
- harmonic
- node