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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
/
2017
/
S2
/
3
/
1
/
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2026-10-25
At
a
fixed cosmological
time
, homogeneous expansion has
v
=
H
(
t
)
r
.
A
comoving
galaxy
has
r
=
R
(
t
)
x
with constant
x
, hence
v
=
R
˙
x
=
(
R
˙
/
R
)
r
. Thus
H
=
R
˙
/
R
.
Peculiar velocities
must be removed before applying this
ideal
relation to individual
galaxies
.
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