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🎓 Computational Astrophysics with MHD-INT

10 short, free lessons. Each one comes with a video, a PDF handout and an exercise you can do with the free version of MHD-INT.

Module 1 · Introduction

LESSON 1

What is MHD-INT?

A planetary evolution lab on your computer

~3.4 minâ–¶ videoPDF LESSON 2

The Solar System

Eight worlds, four and a half billion years forward

~4.0 minâ–¶ videoPDF

Module 2 · Orbits and gravity

LESSON 3

Kepler's Laws

Three rules every planet follows, verified with N-body

~3.1 minâ–¶ videoPDF LESSON 4

Elliptical Orbits

The shape of an orbit and how tides round it off

~2.8 minâ–¶ videoPDF

Module 3 · Rotation and tides

LESSON 5

Planetary Rotation

Why some worlds always show the same face

~2.9 minâ–¶ videoPDF LESSON 6

Tides and Resonances

When orbits agree with each other

~2.9 minâ–¶ videoPDF

Module 4 · Magnetic field

LESSON 7

Earth's Dynamo

What lights up a planetary magnetic field, and what shuts it off

~5.0 minâ–¶ videoPDF LESSON 8

Magnetospheres

The invisible shield, and how big it is

~2.8 minâ–¶ videoPDF

Module 5 · Habitability

LESSON 9

Habitable Zone

Where liquid water could exist, and why that isn't enough

~3.0 minâ–¶ videoPDF LESSON 10

Magnetic Habitability

What the MHI index measures, and what it doesn't

~3.7 minâ–¶ videoPDF

The lessons' results are MHD-INT simulations from a simplified model; every lesson says what is real and what is not.

The lesson videos and handouts are currently in Spanish.