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CHAPTER V THE FORMS OF CELLS

since the internal fluid-pressure is also everywhere identical, that the expression (1ã€₤いã€₤ R ã€₤+ã€₤1ã€₤いã€₤ Rÿ£¢ã€ý ) for the cylinder is equal to the corôÙreôÙsponôÙding expression, which we may call (1ã€₤いã€₤ r ã€₤+ã€₤1ã€₤いã€₤ rÿ£¢ã€ý ), in the case of the terminal spheres. But in the cylinder 1ã€₤いã€₤ Rÿ£¢ã€ý =ã€₤0, and in the sphere 1ã€₤いã€₤ r =ã€₤1ã€₤いã€₤ rÿ£¢ã€ý . Therefore our relation of equality becomes 1ã€₤いã€₤ R =ã€₤2ã€₤いã€₤ r , or r =ã€₤2《 R ; that is to say, the sphere in question has just twice the radius of the cylinder of which it forms a cap.

A geometric diagram showing a circular arc, a chord connecting its endpoints, and a central point O forming a triangle.

And if Ob, the radius of the sphere, be equal to twice the radius (Oa) of the cylinder, it follows that the angle aOb is an angle of 60ô¯, and bOc is also an angle of 60ô¯; that is to say, the arc bc is equal to (ÿ£¢1ÿ£¢ã„ÿ£¢3)《ü€. In other words, the spherical disc which (under the given conditions) caps our cylinder, is not a portion taken at haphazard, but is neither more nor less than that portion of a sphere which is subtended by a cone of 60ô¯. Moreover, it is plain that the height of the spherical cap, de,

where R is the radius of our cylinder, or one-half the radius of our spherical cap: in other words the normal height of the spherical cap over the end of the cylindrical cell is just a very little more than one-eighth of the diameter of the cylinder, or of the radius of the

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