  Based upon previous discussions on the structure of compact stars geared
towards undergraduate physics students, a real experiment involving two
upper-level undergraduate physics students, a beginning physics graduate, and
two advanced graduate students was conducted. A recent addition to the physics
curriculum at Florida State University, "The Physics of Stars", sparked quite a
few students' interests in the subject matter involving stellar structure.
This, coupled with "Stars and Statistical Physics" by Balian and Blaizot and
"Neutron Stars for Undergraduates" by Silbar and Reddy, is the cornerstone of
this small research group who tackled solving the structure equations for
compact objects in the Summer of 2004. Through the use of a simple
finite-difference algorithm coupled to Microsoft Excel and Maple, solutions to
the equations for stellar structure are presented in the Newtonian regime
appropriate to the physics of white dwarf stars.
