Editing SSC/Structure/BiPolytropes (section)

==Isothermal Core==

The relations shown in the right-hand columns of Table 2 and Table 3 provide analogous conditions that must be satisfied in order to ensure the proper continuity of physical parameters across the interface of a composite structure that has an isothermal, rather than a polytropic, core.  The ''interface conditions'' shown in Table 2 were derived by properly associating the relations in the <math>1^\mathrm{st}</math> column of Table 1 with corresponding relations in the <math>3^\mathrm{rd}</math> column of Table 1.  Strictly speaking, a structure whose core obeys an isothermal equation of state can also be considered a bipolytrope, but its mathematical description must be handled separately because its effective polytropic index is <math>n_c=\infty</math>.