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Understanding Our Universe
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Chapter 11, Problem 36QAP

(a)

To determine

The radius at which each quantity is halved.

(b)

To determine

The quantity that decreases fastest with the radius; that quantity that decreases slowest with the radius.

(c)

To determine

The reason why the temperature decreases smoothly but the production drops abruptly.

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