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- From: wdb3926@zeus.tamu.edu (BRUTON, WILLIAM DANIEL)
- Subject: Rotating Bucket of Water in a Gravitation Field...Part #2
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:52:00 GMT
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- >Anyone ever proved that the surface of water in a bucket rotating
- >in a gravitational field is a paraboloid?
- >
- >Dan
-
- Thanks for the replies reminding me how to work this problem. It was
- not a homework problem from a class. I was just trying to determine
- how fast one needs to rotate a cylinder of molten glass to make telescope
- mirrors of a particular focal length. Thanks.
-
- I found the problem today in Halliday and Resnic Part 1, Chapter 17,
- Problem 18. The result in cylindrical coordinates is
- z = w^2 r^2 / (2 g) , where w = angular velocity of the bucket.
-
-
- I have a new question....
-
- Suppose there is a closed cylinder filled with a liquid in empty space
- (i.e. far away from any objects) and that one can somehow measure the
- pressure along the radial direction remotely. If the cylindar is
- rotating along the axis there will be a pressure variation along
- the radius of the cylindar, right?
-
- Doesn't this say that there is some absolute inertia frame that
- the rotation is to be measured from? This reeks of "ether" so it
- must be incorrect. Were is my error?
-
- I suppose this is some kind of apparent paradox in relativity. I have
- seen someone give a talk about the "rotating bucket paradox". But
- the speaker did not seem to clear up the paradox.
-
- Thanks again,
- Dan
-
-