The Crab Pulsar has a period that is currently of length 33.085ms. It is estimated to have an equatorial radius of 15km, about average for a neutron star. The pulsar is slowing in its rotation so that it is expected to come to rest in the future. What is the value of the tangential acceleration of an object on the neutron star’s equator?

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