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Jan 22, 2016 at 16:34 comment added user4437416 Though Salpeter was a perspicacious physicist, both of us graduate students cannot make sense of this. It's quite frustrating, for I want to try to incorporate the paper's electrical and thermal conductivities, if only I could make sense of these limiting conventions.
Jan 22, 2016 at 16:31 history rollback David Z
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Jan 22, 2016 at 16:31 comment added David Z Oh, right, I wasn't paying attention. Nah, I can't make any sense of that one.
Jan 22, 2016 at 15:31 comment added user4437416 Thank you. But doing so would leave a number in units of esu (electrostatic units), which I understand to be equivalent to charge or statC which can be expressed alternatively as $cm^{3/2}g^{1/2}s^{-1}$. But apparently the electrical conductivity in cgs units can be given by 1/s or s^-1. How does this fit into our understanding?
Jan 22, 2016 at 14:09 comment added David Z I've edited accordingly.
Jan 22, 2016 at 14:09 history edited David Z CC BY-SA 3.0
add a note about equation 10
Jan 22, 2016 at 12:50 comment added user4437416 Ok. We can treat the density to be a pure number if we want to calculate. but what of equation 10? But how does this fit into making sense of equation 10?
Jan 22, 2016 at 5:50 history answered David Z CC BY-SA 3.0