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Experiment No (9) Centroid and Center of Gravity

This document describes an experiment to determine the centroid and center of gravity of different objects. Students use a nail, weights, and a pencil to draw plumb lines and find the point where the lines intersect. This indicates the center of gravity. Calculations are also shown to find the theoretical centroid using formulas. In all cases, the calculated centroids matched the experimental results found in the lab. The key findings are that the center of gravity is where an object balances and where plumb lines drawn from different points on the object intersect.

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Experiment No (9) Centroid and Center of Gravity

This document describes an experiment to determine the centroid and center of gravity of different objects. Students use a nail, weights, and a pencil to draw plumb lines and find the point where the lines intersect. This indicates the center of gravity. Calculations are also shown to find the theoretical centroid using formulas. In all cases, the calculated centroids matched the experimental results found in the lab. The key findings are that the center of gravity is where an object balances and where plumb lines drawn from different points on the object intersect.

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Experiment No (9)

Centroid and center of Gravity

1- Introduction
The centroid is average position of all the points of an object

Fig-1-Centroid

When we cut a plane shape from a piece of card it balance perfectly on


its centroid . the geographic center of the USA was found this way
near Lebanon , Kansas in 1918 , see fig -1-

The center of gravity its same as the centroid when the density is the
same rotation , in fact you can balance an object by supporting it
directly below its center of gravity , see fig -2- .throughout . A force
that goes through the center of gravity wont cause any

Fig-2-:Center of gravity
2- Objective
1- Concept of the center of gravity , center of mass , and the centroid .
2- Determine the location of the center of gravity and centroid for a
system of discrete particles and a body of arbitrary shape .

3- Material and Apparatus

1-Cardboard
2-Weight (washer, bolt, or fishing weight)
3-Hole punch
4-Nail
5-Pencil

4- Description of equipment
Fig-3-:Diagram of how to determine
centroid and center of gravity

5-Procedure
1- Punch a hole near the edge of the
cut-out cardboard piece and hang
it from a nail.
2- Place the weight, a washer or
bolt, on a thread and tie it off.
3- Hang the thread and weight from
the nail in front of the cardboard.
4- Use a pencil to draw a plumb line
down the cardboard where the
thread touches. This marks your
center line from that hanging
point.
5- Repeat step 2 and 5 in two other
places on the cardboard.
6- Remove the cardboard from the
nail and balance on the tip of the
pencil. You should know where
to balance because it will be
where all of the pencil plumb
lines intersect, finding the center
for
From this experiments, we now understand
that the center of gravity is found usually in
one of two ways: The first is that an object
will balance when the center of gravity is
below the point where the object pivots. The
second is that for irregularly shaped objects,
the object will balance at the center of gravity,
or the point where all of the plumb lines
intersect.

7- Calculation and Result

We need to calculate the centroid of our


different shape of cardboard that we used at
the lab . And we will prove that the centroid of
each shapes are the same or near of that we
have been taken at the lab and we will use
∑, ∑,
these two equation : ∑ A , Ay Ax

∑A
.

1)

A=b*h=20*20=400cm2

b 20 ∑, 400∗10
x=
2 = =20cm
2
→ Ax

∑A
= 400
=10 cm = 10cm in
lab.
h 20 ∑ Ax 400∗10
y-= 2 = 2 =10cm →
∑ A = 400 =10cm=10cm in
lab.

2)
1 1
A= 2 bh = 2
∗22.7∗23.1=262.185 cm

b 22.7
x= =
3 3
=7.6 cm →
∑ Ax
∑A
= 262.185∗7.6
262.185
=7.6 cmnear ¿ 7 cm∈lab .

- b 23.1 ∑ Ay = 7.7∗262.185 =7.7 cmnear ¿ 7.3∈lab .


y= 3
=
3
=7.7 cm→
∑A 262.185
3)

π
A= 4 d=234.9 cm
d 17.3
x=r = =
2 2
=8.6 cm →
∑ Ax
∑A
= 234.9∗8.6
234.9
=8.6 cm=8.6 cm∈lab .

d 17.3 ∑ Ay = 234.9∗8.6 =8.6 cm=8.6 cm∈lab .


y= r = 2 = 2
=8.6 cm→
∑A 8.6

4)

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