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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 346 1 b Solution by
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The shell feels only radial gravity and the radial force due to the cosmological constant, so its torque vanishes and its specific angular momentum is conserved. Multiplyingby and integrating gives the conserved specific orbital energy
For a uniform sphere, assembling concentric shells gives its gravitational potential energyThe cosmological-constant potential per unit mass is . Since in a uniform sphere,
The scalar virial theorem weights a potential homogeneous of degree by . Gravity has degree and the potential degree , so the final state obeysAt turnaround , while the virial relation gives . Conservation of energy, together with , then gives, for and ,The root connected continuously to the solution has , equivalentlyto first order in . With , virialization occurs at half the turnaround radius. At fixed turnaround state, positive makes this equilibrium root slightly smaller because its repulsive quadratic potential enters both energy conservation and the virial relation; sufficiently strong repulsion instead prevents a bound virialized state. Negative shifts the root in the opposite direction.
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