Physics GCSE
Gravitational collapse
What Gravitational collapse means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Gravitational collapse
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Gravity continuously pulls the star's mass inwards, attempting to collapse it, and the initial cloud of dust and gas collapses as gravity draws the matter together.
Topics that use Gravitational collapse
- Our solar system (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- artificial satellites
- dwarf planets
- Equilibrium
- nuclear fusion
- orbiting the Sun
- scale of the universe
- start of fusion
- galaxy
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