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L Centre
An ‘L’ shape is shown and the task is to find the centre of mass using only a straight edge and pencil. The solution makes use of the fact that the centre of mass of two objects will lie on a line joining their individual centres of mass.
Having worked on practical examples, the investigation now turns to the general case. This brings in work on moments.
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