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Suppose the sun were to suddenly shrink in size but its mass remained the same. according to the law of conservation of angular momentum, what would happen?
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Suppose the sun were to suddenly shrink in size but its mass remained the same. according to the law of conservation of angular momentum, what would happen?

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since the angular momentum is conserved, and the moment of inertia has decreased, so the angular velocity of the sun will rapidly increase and the sun will spin faster
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