Abstract
This note is concerned with the problem of the slow motions of an inviscid, incompressible rotating fluid, and in particular with the motion of a sphere along the axis of rotation. This problem was studied recently by Stewartson (2), who overcomes the principal mathematical difficulty, viz. that of formulating the problem in a coordinate system in which the appropriate differential equation can be solved simply and in which the sphere is a coordinate surface, by a very elegant transformation of independent variables. Stewartson, however, uses inappropriate initial conditions. It is the purpose of this note to discuss the question of initial conditions in the light of results previously obtained by the writer (1).
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