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Gravitational collapse - proof that energy dissipation is required?

As an undergraduate, I took a short course on astrophysics, where I encountered the Jeans mass. This is the critical mass for a spherical cloud of interstellar gas above which the cloud is predicted ...
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Angular momentum of the center of mass of yo-yo reaching the end

I am a physics undergrad, and I know only a basic stuff about the subject. Yesterday, I was taught about the angular momentum of a yo-yo and my professor said that when the yo-yo hits the end of the ...
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