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Centroid
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Description: Illustration showing a centroid, "the curve passing through the successive positions of the instantaneous centre of a body having a combined motion of rotation and translation is called a centroid." A smooth curve passes through the successive positions of the instantaneous centers (all the centers marked o)will be the centroid ab.
Source: Peter Schwamb, S.B. And Allyne L. Merrill, S.B. Elements Of Mechanism (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1905) 13
Keywords: rolling surface, surfaces, plane, motion, motions, translation, centroids, rotation
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