On Floating Bodies (second part)

Authors

  • André Koch Torres Assis Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
  • Nivaldo Benedito Ferreira Campos Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53727/rbhc.v5i2.290

Keywords:

center of gravity, floating bodies

Abstract

This is the Portuguese translation of the second and last part of Archimedes’s text on floating bodies. The first part of this text has been published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência, v. 16, p. 69-80, 1996. In this second part Archimedes discusses the conditions of equilibrium of a paraboloid of revolution floating in a liquid.

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Author Biographies

André Koch Torres Assis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Doutor em Física  e professor associado da Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP.

Nivaldo Benedito Ferreira Campos, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Doutor em Engenharia Mecânica; e professor.

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Published

2012-12-29

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Translation

License

Creative Commons License

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