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MiS Preprint
150/2006
Floating bodies subject to capillary attractions
Robert Finn
Abstract
Admissible shapes of bodies are characterized, according to the range of configurations in which the body can be made to float in a bath with horizontal surface, in the presence of capillary attractions.
