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centre of mass (Definition)
CenterOfMass

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See Also: Pappus's centroid theorem

Other names:  center of mass
Also defines:  centre of gravity, centroid, center of gravity

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centre of mass of half-disc (Example) by pahio
centre of mass of polygon (Result) by pahio
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Cross-references: reflections, component, Lebesgue measure, reflects, property, origin, without loss of generality, centre, obvious, Transforms, equation, isometry, integrand, variable, invertible linear map, areas, applications, force, term, fixed, Borel measure, summation, finite, finite set, discrete, Hausdorff measure, rectifiable set, even, measure, measurable, density, mass, unit, volume element, manifold, points, weighted average, integral, vector, signed measure
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This is version 9 of centre of mass, born on 2005-08-15, modified 2005-08-31.
Object id is 7322, canonical name is CentreOfMass.
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Classification:
AMS MSC26B15 (Real functions :: Functions of several variables :: Integration: length, area, volume)
 28A75 (Measure and integration :: Classical measure theory :: Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory)

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