Deriving the Value of an Exponent

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UMich1344

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Nov 4, 2007

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Suppose we lived in a matter-dominated, critical-density universe. The matter density rho of such a universe changes with time t as a power of t. Derive the value of the exponent n in the following equation:

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rho = At^n

where A = constant

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Nov 4, 2007

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Deriving the Value of an Exponent

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Deriving the Value of an Exponent

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