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center of mass

NOUN
  1. point representing the mean position of the matter in a body

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  • For example, the head and fins ahead of the center of mass, like canards, can create large torques, when small errors in their attitudes can rapidly destabilize swimming trajectories.
  • any rotating body has an angular momentum about its center of mass
  • There is a greater density beneath the lunar nearside, displacing its center of mass away from its axis of symmetry, and the pull of the Earth keeps that greater mass directed towards us.
  • More derived taxa commonly possess fins located higher on the body, near the center of mass of the animal, with more vertically oriented insertions (e.g., perciform fishes).
  • Or maybe it will be a Brazil-style center of massive inequality and authors will be patronized by vain billionaires. Matthew Yglesias » Copyright and Author Starvation
  • A third type of double stars involves a pair of stars revolving about their common center of mass in an orbit whose plane passes through or very near the Earth.
  • Interestingly enough, trump 11 Justice, which corresponds to the astrological sign Libra, is at the point of equilibrium (center of mass) of this arrangement. Archive 2007-07-01
  • Strictly speaking, the INEGI calculation is based on averaging the furthermost points of Mexico in the four cardinal directions, rather than on a true "center of mass" calculation or demonstration. Did you know? Mexico has more than one geographic center
  • If an animal's center of mass falls outside the triangle of support formed by its three feet on the ground, it is statically unstable and will fall.
  • These deformations are random, with their amplitude and direction uncorrelated with the center of mass motion.
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