Consider a huge rotating cloud of particles in space that gravitate together to form an increasingly dense ball.As the cloud shrinks in size,it
A)rotates slower.
B)rotates faster.
C)rotates at the same rate.

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As the cloud shrinks in size, its rotation speed increases due to the conservation of angular momentum. This principle states that if no external torque acts on a system, the total angular momentum of the system remains constant. As the particles move closer together, they must rotate faster to conserve angular momentum.

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