Suppose that the Sun runs out of nuclear fuel and suddenly collapses to form a white dwarf star. The size shrinks and became as big as earth. Assuming that there is no loss in mass and it maintained to be a solid sphere, what would be the little white dwarf star's rotation period. The present rotation of the sun is about 25 days. Earth's radius = 6.37x10^6 Sun's radius = 6.96x10^8

Suppose that the Sun runs out of nuclear fuel and suddenly collapses to form a white dwarf star. The size shrinks and became as big as earth. Assuming that there is no loss in mass and it maintained to be a solid sphere, what would be the little white dwarf star's rotation period. The present rotation of the sun is about 25 days. Earth's radius = 6.37x10^6 Sun's radius = 6.96x10^8

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