For a short channel slice, the fluid volume per unit length is and the axial volume flux is . The quasi-one-dimensional conservation of mass equation is therefore
Neglecting products of perturbations gives . This uses the section-averaged approximation stipulated in the problem; small transverse velocities ensure impermeability of varying-width walls but are not leading axial terms.
The Euler equations are . For irrotational flow, and , so
At the zero-pressure free surface, linearization about rest gives ; differentiate in to get . Differentiating the mass equation in time and substituting gives
Put . For the exponential width, a time-harmonic amplitude satisfies
Writing removes the first derivative and gives , where . A nonzero real wavenumber, and hence a spatially travelling phase, exists precisely when
For this case an outward-going solution matching the oscillating boundary is
Substitution in both linear equations verifies it, and . Below the cutoff the spatial exponents are real, giving evanescent responses; at equality the repeated-root solution has no travelling spatial phase.
Orient the body boundary counterclockwise. Its outward body normal satisfies , so the pressure force has complex form
By steady Bernoulli's equation, , where . Constant terms integrate to zero around a closed curve. On an impermeable boundary, velocity is tangent, so . Therefore , yielding the Blasius force theorem
For a slit body, the contour encloses both faces and the tips, interpreted by a limiting exterior contour.
Choose the analytic branch outside the slit with at infinity. It may be written using the principal individual square roots. For , approaching from above gives , and from below gives .
Now
There is no term in . Since is analytic in the exterior, enlarging the contour to a large circle shows its integral is zero. Thus
This total-force argument retains the slit-tip contribution automatically.
On the upper face, ; on the lower face, . For , their zeros are
They are distinct face points even at , when both have coordinate zero. At , and everywhere in the exterior: there are no velocity-zero stagnation points. The limiting positions at the two tips must not be substituted into a singular expression and treated as zeros.
For the sketch at , the far-field velocity is , and streamlines are levels of . The plate is the zero-stream-function boundary, with the two stagnation points at on the indicated faces.
Figure 1.
Potential flow past a flat plate at forty-five degrees
. The arrows show the flow direction. Marked stagnation points lie on different faces of the plate; both edges are singular in this non-circulating ideal flow. Details.
In SI units, Maxwell's equations are
Dotting the last equation with , and using the curl equation for , gives
Integrate over the fixed region and apply the divergence theorem. This proves Poynting's theorem: the rate of increase of electromagnetic energy stored inside, plus the outward Poynting flux, plus the rate of work on charges, is zero. The last term need not be positive for arbitrary externally driven currents; when positive it is power transferred from the field to matter.
For the travelling wave put . A purely oscillatory magnetic field satisfying Faraday's law is
Both divergences vanish. The vacuum Ampère-Maxwell law then requires , so with the positive constants in the question,
A superposed static background is not part of the pure plane-wave solution. The electric and magnetic energy contributions are equal, giving
Consequently pointwise, including the nodes where both sides vanish.
The lower particle has position , so its squared speed is . The bead contributes to the kinetic energy. The two equal springs have combined potential energy up to a constant: their lengths are and , and equal natural lengths cancel the linear terms in the sum of their squared extensions. The gravitational potential is . Therefore
There is no explicit time dependence, so the total energy
is conserved. The Euler-Lagrange equations are
At rest these require and , giving the downward and upward positions modulo . The downward position has positive-definite quadratic potential and is stable, whereas the upward position has a negative angular potential curvature.
Keeping terms of second order about the stable position and dropping a constant gives
For unit parameters the mass matrix and stiffness matrix are and . A normal mode with squared frequency requires
Thus the positive angular frequencies are
For fixed endpoints and a regular integral constraint, Lagrange multipliers replace the constrained stationarity problem by stationarity of , with constant . Writing , the Euler-Lagrange equation is . Regularity here means the first variation of is not identically zero; abnormal constraint extrema otherwise need separate consideration.
If has no explicit dependence, then
This is the Beltrami identity, giving the required constant of integration.
For the chain, , so its fixed arc length is exactly , and its gravitational energy is . The positive constant can be suppressed in minimization. Use
The equation, with a consistent sign convention for the multiplier, is
The first integral becomes . It implies ; solving gives
The equal endpoint heights force , by evenness and strict increase of on the positive half-line. Thus the extrema have the asserted catenary form. The length and height conditions give
For the hanging minimum choose , the upward-convex branch lying below its endpoints. For this positive is unique: writing , the ratio increases continuously from one to infinity. The negative- branch describes an upward arch, not the hanging minimum. If , only the horizontal straight chain is admissible and is the limiting degenerate case; is impossible.

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