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The Liquid Mirror Telescope THE LIQUID MIRROR TELESCOPEThe fact that a liquid under uniform (solid body) rotation forms a parabolic free surface profile is known since the times of Sir Isaac Newton. Here we will derive the profile using the differential form of the conservation equations. Consider a liquid in a cylindrical container that rotates.
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