How Things Float

DOI10.2307/2325023zbMath0735.76012OpenAlexW2011349270MaRDI QIDQ3983394

E. N. Gilbert

Publication date: 27 June 1992

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2325023

zbMATH Keywords

hydrostaticsbodies of revolutionhomogeneous bodiesstable orientations of a floating body

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99)

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