STABILITET PLIVANJA TIJELA Zanimljivosti:

Fig.4.38Schematicoffloatingcubic.
A wooden cubic (made of pine, for example) is inserted into water. Part of the block floats above
water line. The cubic mass (gravity) centroid is in the middle of the cubic. However the buoyant center
is the middle of the volume under the water (see Figure 4.38). However, any experiment of this cubic
wood shows that it is stable locally. Small amount of tilting of the cubic results in returning to the
original position. When tilting a larger amount than /4 , it results in a flipping into the next stable
position. The cubic is stable in six positions (every cubic has six faces). In fact, in any of these six
positions. The reason for this local stability of the cubic is that other positions are less stable. If one
draws the stability (later about this criterion) as a function of the rotation angle will show a sinusoidal
function with four picks in a whole rotation.