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MiS Preprint
154/2006
The Floating Ball 'Paradox'
Robert Finn
Abstract
An earlier work by the present author questioned a general capillarity contact angle criterion introduced by Thomas Young in 1805. The paper just preceding this one presents an explicitly computable example as supporting evidence by analogy that Young’s criterion could be correct. The present note takes issue with that view, and offers an alternative interpretation of the example.
