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  2. Center of mass - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a human's center of mass is detected with one of two methods: the reaction board method is a static analysis that involves the person lying down on that instrument, and use of their static equilibrium equation to find their center of mass; the segmentation method relies on a mathematical solution based on the physical principle that ...

  3. Center-of-gravity method - Wikipedia

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    The center-of-gravity method is a theoretic algorithm for convex optimization. It can be seen as a generalization of the bisection method from one-dimensional functions to multi-dimensional functions. [1]: Sec.8.2.2 It is theoretically important as it attains the optimal convergence rate. However, it has little practical value as each step is ...

  4. Centroid - Wikipedia

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    In physics, if variations in gravity are considered, then a center of gravity can be defined as the weighted mean of all points weighted by their specific weight. In geography , the centroid of a radial projection of a region of the Earth's surface to sea level is the region's geographical center .

  5. Metacentric height - Wikipedia

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    "G", is the center of gravity. "GM", the stiffness parameter of a boat, can be lengthened by lowering the center of gravity or changing the hull form (and thus changing the volume displaced and second moment of area of the waterplane) or both. An ideal boat strikes a balance.

  6. List of centroids - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of centroids of various two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. The centroid of an object in -dimensional space is the intersection of all hyperplanes that divide into two parts of equal moment about the hyperplane.

  7. List of equations in gravitation - Wikipedia

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    A common misconception occurs between centre of mass and centre of gravity.They are defined in similar ways but are not exactly the same quantity. Centre of mass is the mathematical description of placing all the mass in the region considered to one position, centre of gravity is a real physical quantity, the point of a body where the gravitational force acts.

  8. Barycenter (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    If Jupiter had Mercury's orbit (57,900,000 km, 0.387 AU), the Sun–Jupiter barycenter would be approximately 55,000 km from the center of the Sun (⁠ r 1 / R 1 ⁠ ≈ 0.08). But even if the Earth had Eris's orbit (1.02 × 10 10 km, 68 AU), the Sun–Earth barycenter would still be within the Sun (just over 30,000 km from the center).

  9. Newton–Euler equations - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally the Newton–Euler equations is the grouping together of Euler's two laws of motion for a rigid body into a single equation with 6 components, using column vectors and matrices. These laws relate the motion of the center of gravity of a rigid body with the sum of forces and torques (or synonymously moments) acting on the rigid body.