Jeans' Length As Oscillation Wavelength
The Jeans' Length is the oscillation wavelength below which stable oscillations rather than gravitational collapse will occur.
where G is the gravitational constant, is the sound speed, and is the enclosed mass density.
It is also the distance a sound wave would travel in the collapse time.
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