Text-book of theoretical naval architecture (1889)
Attwood, Edward L. (Edward Lewis), 1871- · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 62
centre of gravity is known relatively tothe given axis if we know the geometrical moment about theaxis and also the area, for the distance will be the momentdivided by the area. It is usual to speak of the moment of an Moments, Centre of Gravity, Centre of Buoyancy, etc. 51 area about a given axis… … we wish to find its centre of gravity with respect to the endordinate, OA. To do this, we must first find the moment ofthe total area about OA, and this divided by the area of thefigure itself will give the distance of the centre of gravity fromOA. Take any ordinate, PQ, a distance of x from OA,…
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