Floating Bodies of Equilibrium

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DOI10.1111/1467-9590.T01-1-00231zbMATH Open1141.76345arXivphysics/0203061OpenAlexW2109798161MaRDI QIDQ3522182FDOQ3522182


Authors: Franz Wegner Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 1 September 2008

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A long cylindrical body of circular cross-section and homogeneous density may float in all orientations around the cylinder axis. It is shown that there are also bodies of non-circular cross-sections which may float in any direction. Apart from those found by Auerbach for rho=1/2 there are one-parameter families of cross-sections for rho not= 1/2 which have a p-fold rotation axis. For given p they exist for p-2 densities rho. There are strong indications, that for all p-2 densities one has the same family of cross-sections. (Proven in physics/0205059)


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0203061




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