The Scientific Papers of Sir George Darwin Figures of Equilibrium of Rotating Liquid and Geophysical Investigations
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Chronological List of Papers with References to the Volumes in which they are or will be contained
- Errata
- FIGURES OF EQUILIBRIUM OF ROTATING LIQUID AND GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS
- 1 On the influence of Geological Changes on the Earth's Axis of Rotation
- 2 On Professor Haughton's Estimate of Geological Time
- 3 On a Suggested Explanation of the Obliquity of Planets to their Orbits
- 4 Note on the Ellipticity of the Earth's Strata
- 5 On an Oversight in the Mécanique Céleste, and on the Internal Densities of the Planets
- 6 On the Figure of Equilibrium of a Planet of Heterogeneous Density
- 7 The Theory of the Figure of the Earth carried to the Second Order of Small Quantities
- 8 On Jacobi's Figure of Equilibrium for a Rotating Mass of Fluid
- 9 On Figures of Equilibrium of Rotating Masses of Fluid
- 10 Ellipsoidal Harmonic Analysis
- 11 On the Pear-shaped Figure of Equilibrium of a Rotating Mass of Liquid
- 12 The Stability of the Pear-shaped Figure of Equilibrium of a Rotating Mass of Liquid
- 13 On the Integrals of the Squares of Ellipsoidal Surface Harmonic Functions
- 14 The Approximate Determination of the Form of Maclaurin's Spheroid
- 15 On the Figure and Stability of a Liquid Satellite
- INDEX
3 - On a Suggested Explanation of the Obliquity of Planets to their Orbits
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Chronological List of Papers with References to the Volumes in which they are or will be contained
- Errata
- FIGURES OF EQUILIBRIUM OF ROTATING LIQUID AND GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS
- 1 On the influence of Geological Changes on the Earth's Axis of Rotation
- 2 On Professor Haughton's Estimate of Geological Time
- 3 On a Suggested Explanation of the Obliquity of Planets to their Orbits
- 4 Note on the Ellipticity of the Earth's Strata
- 5 On an Oversight in the Mécanique Céleste, and on the Internal Densities of the Planets
- 6 On the Figure of Equilibrium of a Planet of Heterogeneous Density
- 7 The Theory of the Figure of the Earth carried to the Second Order of Small Quantities
- 8 On Jacobi's Figure of Equilibrium for a Rotating Mass of Fluid
- 9 On Figures of Equilibrium of Rotating Masses of Fluid
- 10 Ellipsoidal Harmonic Analysis
- 11 On the Pear-shaped Figure of Equilibrium of a Rotating Mass of Liquid
- 12 The Stability of the Pear-shaped Figure of Equilibrium of a Rotating Mass of Liquid
- 13 On the Integrals of the Squares of Ellipsoidal Surface Harmonic Functions
- 14 The Approximate Determination of the Form of Maclaurin's Spheroid
- 15 On the Figure and Stability of a Liquid Satellite
- INDEX
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- The Scientific Papers of Sir George DarwinFigures of Equilibrium of Rotating Liquid and Geophysical Investigations, pp. 51 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1910