
Hydrostatics and Aerostatics 
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Attention 
has 
to 
be paid, however, 
to 
the fact 
that 
the derivations only 
hold when 
Ilr 
~ 
tan 
u. 
For 
Ilr~ 
tan 
u one obtains the limiting case 
of 
a container 
at 
rest i.e. the 
frictional force 
is 
higher then the forward accelerating force. 
As 
a last example 
to 
show the employment 
of 
hydrostatic laws in 
accelerated reference systems. 
It 
shows a rotating cylinder closed 
on 
the 
top 
and 
at 
the bottom, which 
is 
partly filled with a liquid. 
When 
the 
cylinder 
is 
at 
rest, 
the 
free surface 
of 
this liquid assumes a 
horizontal position, as the different liquid particles only experience 
the 
gravitational force as mass force. When the cylinder 
is 
put 
into rotation, one 
observes a deformation 
of 
the liquid surface which progresses until as a final 
form paraboloid. When now on this rotating motion an additional accelerated 
vertical motion 
is 
superimposed, one detects that the hyperboloid can assume 
different 
shapes, depending 
on 
the magnitude 
of 
the vertical acceleration 
and 
on 
the direction in which it takes place. 
In 
the following it shall be shown 
that 
the issue 
of 
the shape 
of 
the hyperboloid can be answered 
on 
the basis 
of 
the 
basic equations 
of 
hydrostatics. 
For 
this purpose a coordinate system 
is 
chosen, 
which 
is 
firmly coupled 
to 
the walls 
of 
the rotating 
and 
vertically accelerated 
cylinder 
and 
which thus experiences the rotating motion as well  as  the 
accelerated vertical motion. 
The above mentioned examples have shown 
that 
the hydrostatic basic 
equations are applicable, provided 
that 
no fluid motion occurs in the chosen 
coordinate system 
and 
that 
the external acceleration forces 
are 
taken into 
consideration as inertia forces. 
It 
is 
shown 
that 
for the following derivations the horizontally occurring 
centrifugal acceleration 
co
2 
r, 
as well as the '''vertical acceleration'"  b, have 
been taken into account. 
If 
one considers the processes in the fluid body in a coordinate system 
(r, 
<p, 
z), 
rotating with the cylinder, one finds that all fluid particles are 
at 
rest 
after having reached the stable final state 
of 
motion. With reference 
to 
the 
chosen coordinate system the prerequisite for the employment ofthe hydrostatic 
basic equation 
is 
fulfilled, which in cylindrical coordinates 
adopt 
the form 
indicated below: 
ap 
lap 
ap 
ar 
= 
pgr 
; ;-
a<p 
= 
pgq>; 
az 
= 
pg= 
. 
For 
gr 
= 
rco
2
, 
gq> 
= 0 
and 
gz 
= 
-(g 
+ b) one obtains for the problem 
to 
be treated the following set 
of 
basic equations 
and 
their general solution. 
ap 
2  1  2  2 
-a =prco 
~ 
P=-pcor 
+jj(<p,z)
, 
r  2