The Gravitational Compression of an Elastic Sphere
A Keane
Australian Journal of Physics
8(1) 167 - 175
Published: 1955
On considering a sphere in hydrostatic gravitational equilibrium, composed of a homogeneous elastic material for which the variation of incompressibility x with pressure p is given by dx/dp=n, a constant, we find that there is an upper bound to the radius R of the sphere provided n=2, and that for all values of n there is a lower bound to the value of I/MR2, where I is the moment of inertia about a diameter and M is the mass of the sphere.
Full text doi:10.1071/PH550167
© CSIRO 1955
