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 . Therefore
The 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 gives
The result is in cubic coordinate units; the full rotation is already accounted for by the disk area.
Use the convention , , , with measured from the positive vertical axis. The squared radius is
Since the horizontal radial distance is for finite ,
The horizontal angle advances with . Thus the spherical coordinates are
An 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 gives
This 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 therefore
It 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 .
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The integration cap inside a cardioid and outside the concentric circle
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Use cylindrical coordinates , . The velocity field becomes
For 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.
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Circular flow at fixed heights reverses direction across the stationary middle plane
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Use completing the square to obtain
The locus is therefore a circle with centre and radius . It meets the horizontal axis at and and the vertical axis at ; its highest and lowest points are .
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The circle locus, its centre, and its coordinate-axis intersections
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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 gives
Hence the full parameter range is
The 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 is
Assume and put . Dividing by yields . Since and , the requested complex equation has
Indeed these choices make the mixed term . Completing the square gives
The Circles of Apollonius therefore have
The 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 is
a circle with centre and radius . Its extreme horizontal coordinates are and , and its extreme vertical coordinates are also and .
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The circle and its three transformed loci in Question 11, drawn with equal horizontal and vertical scales
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At each height, the removed circular sector has the same angle and of the original radius. Its area and hence its volume are therefore multiplied by . Equating the removed volume to that of the reformed solid sphere gives
Consequently
At height , the circular sector has radius and angle . Its area is , so slicing by horizontal cross-sections gives the volume integral
Use the substitution rule . Then
An integration by parts gives the antiderivative , whose endpoint difference is . Therefore
Take the dumbbell axis to be the axis, with its midpoint at . The right-hand sphere has centre and radius , while its junction with the cylinder is at . Put , so . The Pythagorean theorem in a meridional cross-section gives the handle radius from . Thus
Use cylindrical coordinates about the dumbbell axis. Their Jacobian determinant contributes the volume factor , so the handle's mass is the volume integral
Inserting the radius from part (a) yields
Completing the square directly with the complex modulus gives
For , this is the circle with centre and radius . Equality gives just the point , and gives the empty locus. In particular, the nondegenerate answer is
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]
Using the Poynting vector gives
The 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.
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Original nonrelativistic radiation pattern, with zero power along the acceleration and maximum power transverse to it
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At relativistic speed the angular pattern becomes directionally concentrated and retarded-source factors matter. The total instantaneous radiated power generalizes to , with . The displayed simple pattern is restricted to the nonrelativistic limit.
A positive-parity nuclear rotational band in an even-even nucleus has and excitation energies
The 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 gives
Using 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 and
Thus 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 , where
The 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, producing
Both 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.