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The Crab Pulsar Has a Period That Is Currently of Length

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The Crab Pulsar has a period that is currently of length 33.085 ms.It is estimated to have an equatorial radius of 15 km,about average for a neutron star.The pulsar is slowing in its rotation so that it is expected to come to rest 9.5 ×\times 1010 s in the future.What is the value of the tangential acceleration of an object on the neutron star's equator?


A) 3.0 ×\times 10-5 m/s2
B) 2.0 ×\times 10-9 m/s2
C) 3.2 ×\times 10-10 m/s2
D) 7.6 ×\times 10-7 m/s2
E) 4.8 ×\times 10-6 m/s2

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