MATH Seminar

Title: Archimedes' Principle and Capillarity
Seminar: Analysis and Differential Geometry
Speaker: Professor John McCuan of Georgia Institute of Technology
Contact: TBA
Date: 2010-08-31 at 4:00PM
Venue: MSC W301
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Abstract: We give an analysis of floating objects based on a new flux formula for variational problems with movable boundaries. The result allows for the floating of heavy objects not predicted by Archimedes, but easily observed in experiments.