Solved: A white dwarf is a collapsed star with roughly the Suns mass compressed into the

Chapter 8, Problem 40

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A white dwarf is a collapsed star with roughly the Suns mass compressed into the size of Earth. What would be (a) the orbital speed and (b) the orbital period for a spaceship in orbit just above the surface of a white dwarf?

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