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11.3 Exercise 9

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The Sun’s mass is 2.0×1030kg,2.0 \times 10^{30} \text{kg}, its radius is 7.0×105km,7.0 \times 10^{5} \text{km}, and it has a rotational period of approximately 28 days. If the Sun should collapse into a white dwarf of radius 3.5×103km,3.5 \times 10^{3} \text{km}, what would its period be if no mass were ejected and a sphere of uniform density can model the Sun both before and after?

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