Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 05:20:11 02/11/06
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On February 11, 2006 at 03:23:20, h.g.muller wrote: >Read the counterexample that you quote, of a very open cone. That convincingly >shows that in that case a totally submerged sphere does not displace the larger >amount of water at all. In fact a thousand times larger spere that is only >submerged for a very small fraction displaces thousand times more water.... If the sphere is not completely submerged , then it has to float - which will mean you need more info to find out how much it floats by , etc : something which is not provided. Also , the wording of the question , as presented here , indicates that the sphere is submerged "Find the radius of the sphere which if dropped into the cone would have caused the maxiumum amount of water to spill over the top." (into the cone , not in the cone). Ofcourse , I could be wrong , and ofcourse I am still wondering why I am taking an interest in this problem when I have so much work pending :-( Mridul
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