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Certain neutron stars (extremely dense stars) are believed to be rotating at about 1 rev/s. if such a star has a radius of 20 km (a typical value), (a) what is the speed of a point on the equator of the star, and (b) what is the centripetal acceleration of this point?

Shane Macguire , 9 Years ago
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Deepak Patra

Last Activity: 9 Years ago

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Therefore, the speed with which the point at equator of a Neutron star rotates is 1.26 x 105.

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Therefore, the acceleration of the point on equator of Neutron star is 7.89 x 105 m /s2. .

Shubham Singh

Last Activity: 9 Years ago

(​a) speed = 40pi km/s
(b) acceleration = 80(pi)2 km/s

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