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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 347 3 b Solution by
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iii) In pressureless gravitational collapse, rotation and pressure are negligible, so ; this is free fall.
iv) A slim accretion disk retains radial inertia and radial pressure together with gravity and centrifugal support, so all four terms generally survive: .
v) A stationary geometrically thick disk or torus has negligible poloidal inertia but order-one pressure support, giving .
vi) Nonrotating Bondi accretion has and . In a highly supersonic Bondi--Hoyle limit the pressure term is also negligible, reducing this to ballistic .
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