No, the derivation does NOT appear in any of those sources.

You are correct, of course. I lost my temper and I said hasty things. I am unworthy to sweep the shavings from the lead of Chandrasekhar’s radiation pencil. humbles self

Although it was almost worth it to goad someone into calling me a “spacklehead.” That was amusing. That would be Miss Podkayne Fries, though.

I wish I was working on something so profound and revolutionary that it was over my advisor’s head, but it’s really just a tedious and annoying geometry problem, and I’m just going nuts over factors of pi and the definition of theta. sigh

Chandrasekhar Limit. . . tee hee . . . I’ll think about that the next time I’m about to bash my head through the screen of my monitor.

Thank you all for the support. I am going to spend the weekend away from the problem and attempt to gain some perspective. I’m sure it will all look much more reasonable on Tuesday.

At this time, I would like to give this thread collective swirlies, take your collective lunch monies, and shove you, collectively, into your lockers. NERDS!

Golf clap

Bravo, good sir. Bravo.

What I’d like to know is why Podkayne is now smiling at Smeghead, sweetly but with narrowed eyes, and picking her teeth with what looks like a letter opener. :wink: