Hubble's Law and the Big Bang Theory
 

Hubble's Law and the Big Bang Theory problem 11


Observations of many galaxies lead to many pairs of values of the distance of the galaxy from the Earth and the speed of the galaxy relative to the Earth. Plotting these values reveals a trend.


  • On the figure below, sketch the variation of with .




  • State the name of the quantity represented by the gradient of the line in the figure above.


 

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