Abstract: A description is given of the resolution

of two questions on rotating liquid drops. The first

question dates back to experiments of Plateau

(1843) . The second question relates both to certain

aspects of lunar soil samples brought back from

the moon in the late 1960s on Apollo 11 and also

to experiments performed by T. G. Wang (1985)

in Spacelab 3 aboard the Challenger space shuttle.
 
 

Donald R. Smith, Professor (Ph.D., Stanford) Differential Equations, Singular Perturbation Theory, Rotating Liquid Drops, x42627, 6151, drsmith@math.ucsd.edu