Paper 2, Section I, C
Part II, 2016
A spherical cloud of mass has radius and initial radius . It contains material with uniform mass density , and zero pressure. Ignoring the cosmological constant, show that if it is initially at rest at and the subsequent gravitational collapse is governed by Newton's law , then
Suppose is given parametrically by
where at . Derive a relation between and and hence show that the cloud collapses to radius at
where is the initial mass density of the cloud.