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• Title Page, Acknowledgements, Abstract, Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Methodology
• Chapter 3: Constant Cooling Simulations
• Chapter 4: Radiative Cooling Simulations
• Chapter 5: Conclusions
• Appendix A: The Internal Energy Equation
• Appendix B: Opacities
• Appendix C: Fourier Analysis
• Appendix D: Animations Mpegs: Tcool=2, High-Res, Shade/Irrad
• References
• Vitae

Last modified: February 9, 2005