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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. Metacentric height - Wikipedia

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    Beyond that range, the stability of the vessel is dominated by what is known as a righting moment. Depending on the geometry of the hull, naval architects must iteratively calculate the center of buoyancy at increasing angles of heel. They then calculate the righting moment at this angle, which is determined using the equation:

  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. 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.

  6. Barycenter (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    In a simple two-body case, the distance from the center of the primary to the barycenter, r 1, is given by: = + = + where : r 1 is the distance from body 1's center to the barycenter; a is the distance between the centers of the two bodies

  7. 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 ...

  8. Ship stability - Wikipedia

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    Ship stability illustration explaining the stable and unstable dynamics of buoyancy (B), center of buoyancy (CB), center of gravity (CG), and weight (W) Ship stability is an area of naval architecture and ship design that deals with how a ship behaves at sea, both in still water and in waves, whether intact or damaged.

  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.