The ACE Lab Seminar

M  May 15  Organizational Meeting; Getting Started
           Topics Discussed: Schedule, Content of Summer Program,
                             Safety in the Lab, Security,
                             Materials and Supplies (June 30),
                             Demaine's Problem,
                             Specific Student Projects
M   20     Lecture (John McCuan)  
           Introduction to the Calculus of Variations
                The Euler-Lagrange Equation for Rotating Drops
                The Delaunay-Chandrasekhar Problem
W   29     Lecture (John McCuan) 
           Two Problems (Delaunay-Chandrasekhar) Emerge:
           1. Analyze all solutions of the rotating drop equation.
           2. Give a rolling curve interpretation.
           Discussion included:
           1. Outline of the analysis for (connected) rotationally 
              symmetric drops that contain the axis of rotation.
           2. Equations (DE's) for path of a roulette along a line.
              N.B. the paper of Eells.