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Engineering Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics

by R. C. Hibbeler
Tenth Edition, 4th Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 2004

Author's Homepage: R. C. Hibbeler

Chapter 9: Center of Gravity and Centroid

"Center of Gravity. The center of gravity G is a point which locates the resultant weight of a system of particles. To show how to determine this point consider the system of n particles fixed within a region of space as shown in Fig. 9-1a. The weights of the particles comprise a system of parallel forces which can be replaced by a single (equivalent) resultant weight having the defined point F of application. To find the xbar, ybar, zbar coordinates of G, we must use the principles outlined in Sec. 4.9."

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