Let the equilateral triangle have side length . Its altitude is , and its incircle has radius : the centre lies on a median, one third of the altitude above the base. The area of the triangle is , while the circle has area . ThereforeThe side length cancels, as required for a dimensionless ratio between similar configurations.
A cross-section perpendicular to the rotation axis is a disk of radius . Disc integration therefore givesThe result is in cubic coordinate units; the full rotation is already accounted for by the disk area.
In cylindrical coordinates, and , so . Thus the circular elliptic paraboloid has equationAt height , the rim radius is .
Use the convention , , , with measured from the positive vertical axis. The squared radius isSince the horizontal radial distance is for finite ,The horizontal angle advances with . Thus the spherical coordinates areAn unwrapped continuous azimuth is simply ; a principal-angle convention introduces harmless jumps by . The polar angle stays in and approaches the two poles only as .
The polar area element is . Integrating first in radius and using symmetry givesThis is the specialization , of the polar cap between a cardioid and a circle area formula.
The radial interval is nonempty exactly when , or . Choose the representative angular range . The region of integration is thereforeIt is the right-hand cap inside the cardioid and outside the circle of radius , symmetric about the horizontal axis. Its boundary intersections have coordinates , and the cap reaches . The radial segment on the horizontal axis runs from to .
Use cylindrical coordinates , . The velocity field becomesFor each fixed height, particles follow concentric circular streamlines around the vertical axis. At the motion is anticlockwise viewed from above, while at it is clockwise. Within a horizontal plane the angular velocity is , independent of radius, and the speed is . Both the plane and the vertical axis are stationary. The rotation rate varies with height, so the entire liquid is not one rigidly rotating body.
The first curve is a circle of radius centred at . A line through the origin with equation intersects it precisely when the perpendicular distance from that centre is at most the radius. The distance from a point to a line givesHence the full parameter range isThe two endpoint lines are tangent, at and respectively; interior values give two real intersections. Both endpoints are therefore included.
For real , squaring the two nonnegative moduli gives . In Cartesian coordinates this isAssume and put . Dividing by yields . Since and , the requested complex equation hasIndeed these choices make the mixed term . Completing the square givesThe Circles of Apollonius therefore haveThe radius is positive for the stated range. No spurious point at has been introduced: at that point the undivided equation would require . Positive gives a circle above the real axis, while gives one below it.
The complex modulus is the Euclidean distance from to . Thus the locus isa circle with centre and radius . Its extreme horizontal coordinates are and , and its extreme vertical coordinates are also and .
At height , the circular sector has radius and angle . Its area is , so slicing by horizontal cross-sections gives the volume integralUse the substitution rule . ThenAn integration by parts gives the antiderivative , whose endpoint difference is . Therefore
Use cylindrical coordinates about the dumbbell axis. Their Jacobian determinant contributes the volume factor , so the handle's mass is the volume integralInserting the radius from part (a) yields
Completing the square directly with the complex modulus givesFor , this is the circle with centre and radius . Equality gives just the point , and gives the empty locus. In particular, the nondegenerate answer is
There is a single point exactly when the radius is zero:Then forces this unique value of the complex number .
An accelerating point charge has a transverse radiation field in addition to its near field. At nonrelativistic speed and large distance ,The acceleration is evaluated at retarded time. Radiation fields decay as , so their outward energy flux integrated over a sphere is independent of radius; the near electric field instead decays as . The radiation vanishes along the acceleration and is strongest perpendicular to it.[ref]
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I by Richard Feynman and others. §28–2, Eqs. (28.5)–(28.6): transverse acceleration field and inverse-distance radiation
Using the Poynting vector givesThe integral uses . This is the Larmor formula. A harmonically accelerated charge with peak acceleration has mean power ; external work supplies this radiated energy in steady operation. Uniform inertial motion does not radiate.
A positive-parity nuclear rotational band in an even-even nucleus has and excitation energiesThe four nonzero levels give . These approximately constant coefficients, together with the even-spin positive-parity sequence, support a rotational interpretation. The roughly eight-percent decline means a constant-inertia rigid rotor is only an approximation: the effective moment of inertia increases along the sequence.
Using the lowest excited level givesUsing the highest level instead gives , showing the scale of the departure from a constant inertia. This is a comparison of nuclear rotational inertia relative to a rigid sphere, not evidence for an exactly spherical rotating intrinsic state.
For a conventional size estimate, explicitly take a uniform sharp radius with and mass . These are standard scale approximations, not additional measured properties of this isotope supplied by the paper. They give andThus the fitted rotational inertia is substantially smaller than the rigid-body scale. Nuclear pairing provides a physical reason collective nuclear inertia need not equal the classical rigid-body value. The comparison's numerical radius dependence is explicit; it is not an independently determined radius.
The deuteron is the bound proton–neutron system. Its ground state has and isospin , with binding energy approximately and no excited bound state. The small binding compared with characteristic nuclear energy scales produces an extended tail. With reduced mass , the asymptotic radial wavefunction decays as , whereThe decay length is not a sharp deuteron radius or the force range. It illustrates weak binding outside the region of strong attraction.
The observed total spin is consistent with aligned nucleon spins, , and a predominantly spatial state, . A central attraction identical in both spin–isospin channels would not distinguish this channel from a spin-singlet proton–neutron channel. In fact the triplet channel binds while the corresponding singlet channel does not. A realistic nuclear force must therefore distinguish these spin–isospin channels, for example through a term , whose eigenvalues are and in triplet and singlet states. The absence of a bound dineutron and diproton reinforces the need to distinguish channels; proton–proton Coulomb repulsion is an additional effect, not a complete explanation of the singlet nuclear interaction.
The clearest evidence against a purely central force is the nonzero electric quadrupole moment. A pure isotropic S-wave charge distribution would give zero. The deuteron quadrupole evidence for a tensor force instead points to a nuclear tensor force,It depends on how the spins point relative to the line joining the particles. It preserves total but couples orbital angular momenta differing by two, producingBoth terms have , and their interference permits a quadrupole moment. The 1939 theoretical analysis explicitly connected the measured quadrupole moment with such directional dependence.[ref]
The nuclear magnetic moment provides a second check. A pure aligned-spin S wave would give approximately , close to but larger than the observed deuteron value approximately . The discrepancy is consistent with non-S-wave structure and interaction-current corrections; it is not by itself a model-independent measurement of a D-state probability. The deuteron D-state admixture depends on the adopted Hamiltonian and electromagnetic current. The magnetic moments and mass differences used for these scales are tabulated physical constants.[ref]
A useful schematic interaction therefore contains central, spin-dependent and tensor terms, and possibly spin–orbit terms in other channels. Long-range one-pion exchange naturally supplies a tensor component, with its finite range set by the pion mass. The deuteron establishes an attractive triplet channel and a noncentral tensor interaction; a spin-independent central potential is insufficient.




