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--- Quick start! (Introduction) ---

Welcome to our site on Hawking radiation!

What's Hawking radiation? How does it connect with black holes - places of mysteries in our universe? We hope you can find out the answers after surfing around our site. To facilitate your navigation, a site map is provided here. Enjoy your visit!

Introduction is sub-divided into 2 parts:
Black holes - An introduction to black holes.
"The Hole Man" - A summary of a science fiction story, which later is used as a framework of our example calculations.

The Core contains the major topics of our site:
Event horizon - We'll explain here an important measurement of black holes.
Virtual particles - the origin of Hawking radiation.
Hawking radiation- Discussing Hawking radiation in details.
Temperature - Temperature of a black hole and related calculations.
Luminosity - Luminosity of a black hole and related calculations.
Life time - Black hole evporation.

Example calculations:
A page with convenient links to all the example calculations.

Background contains pre-requisite knowledge before you can visit The Core.
Gravitation - Newton's law of universal gravitation.
Potential energy - Introduction to gravitational potential energy.
Quantum - The Planck's equation.
Black body radiation - Explain what black body radiation is.
Einstein's Formula - A passage on the famous mass-energy equivalence relation.

All formulas is a formula sheet.

Interactive contains:
Applet - an interactive applet on gravitaion.
Message board - a place for discussion.

Biography is a brief passage on the founder of Hawking radiation - S.W. Hawking.

Guestbook - Please sign our guestbook.

Help - If you need any assistance, visit here.

Search - A search engine.

About is seperate into two parts:
Our team.
Citation and references.

"Black holes aren't black - After Hawking they shine!"
Presented by Angie, Matthias and Thorsten
Team C007571,ThinkQuest Internet Challenge 2000.
Last modified: 2000-08-14.