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Center of Gravity
Centre of Gravity (CoG)
Simplifying a object with distributed weight to a centroid location at which the weight of
the object acts
Found by using a weighted average of the CoG of each part within object
mobject xCoG = mi xi
(8 + 1 + 2 + 5) xCoG = 8 x + 1 x + 2 (3 3) + 5 (3 x)
xCoG = 8 + 1 + 2 3 + 5 38 + 1 + 2 + 5 x = 3016 x = 1.88 x
yCoG = 8 3 + 1 + 2 3 + 5 8 + 1 + 2 + 5 y = 3616 y = 2.25 y