• homogeneous, but has a dense iron core. The Maclaurin spheroid is considered to be the simplest model of rotating ellipsoidal figures in hydrostatic equilibrium...
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    fluid will assume the form of either a Maclaurin spheroid (oblate spheroid) or Jacobi ellipsoid (scalene ellipsoid) when in hydrostatic equilibrium, and...
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    Jacobi. Before Jacobi, the Maclaurin spheroid, which was formulated in 1742, was considered to be the only type of ellipsoid which can be in equilibrium...
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    Chandrasekhar dedicated a chapter of his book Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium to Maclaurin spheroids. Maclaurin corresponded extensively with Clairaut, Maupertuis...
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  • internal fluid motions are different. Maclaurin ellipsoid Jacobi ellipsoid Chandrasekhar, S. (1969). Ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium (Vol. 10, p. 253)...
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    spherical, with an axis ratio of 0.94±0.05 that is consistent with a MacLaurin ellipsoid. Aside from being the smallest of the "big four", Hygiea has a relatively...
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    the object is symmetrically rounded, mostly due to rotation, into an ellipsoid, where any irregular surface features are consequent to a relatively thin...
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  • section to higher dimensions. A Taylor series is a generalization of a MacLaurin series. The binomial formula is a generalization of the formula for (...
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  • Stability of a Maclaurin Spheroid of Small Viscosity. Astrophysical Journal, vol. 137, p. 777, 137, 777. Chandrasekhar, S. (1987). Ellipsoidal figures of...
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    {M}{R^{2}}}~{\frac {1}{\left(1\pm {\frac {\Delta r}{R}}\right)^{2}}}} The Maclaurin series of 1 / ( 1 ± x ) 2 {\displaystyle 1/(1\pm x)^{2}} is 1 ∓ 2 x +...
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