The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Stability; 3. The spherical form; 4. The spheroidal and ellipsoidal forms; 5. Ellipsoidal harmonic analysis; 6. Further properties of lame functions and application to gravitation; 7. The secular stability of the Maclaurin spheroids; 8. The secular stability of the Jacobi ellipsoids; 9. The ordinary stability of the Jacobian ellipsoids; 10. Cosmogonical implications; Appendix: references; Index.