Multiple Choice
As a rotating gas cloud contracts, it spins
A) slower due to a decrease in angular momentum.
B) faster due to conservation of angular momentum.
C) faster due to an increase in angular momentum.
D) slower due to conservation of angular momentum.
E) at a constant rate.
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