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sphere in a cone (ball in a martini glass)
A problem a friend mentioned to me years ago.
You have a cone with height H and angle A. What is the radius R of a sphere that when placed in the cone, displaces the most volume?
One suggestion was to reduce this to a two dimensional case.
A problem a friend mentioned to me years ago.
You have a cone with height H and angle A. What is the radius R of a sphere that when placed in the cone, displaces the most volume?
One suggestion was to reduce this to a two dimensional case.
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