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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
/
2016
/
S29
/
3
/
4
/
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2026-10-25
A
qualitative sketch has
molecular hydrogen
/
helium
outside, increasing
pressure
into
a
conducting
metallic-hydrogen
-
rich
interior, and centrally enhanced heavy elements, possibly distributed rather than confined to
a
sharp
solid
core.
Saturn
'
s
lower
mass
produces different
pressure
/
temperature
transitions and
a
larger relative role for central
concentration
. Both can have compositional
gradients
and
helium
separation; the
moment
alone does not decide whether any boundary is sharp.
Figure 1.
Moment-of-inertia
benchmarks
and qualitative giant-
planet
interior structures
.
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.
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