Centroid

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.

Keywords

plane, rotation, motion, Translation, surfaces, rolling surface, motions, centroids

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Analytical Geometry

Source

Peter Schwamb, S.B. And Allyne L. Merrill, S.B. Elements of Mechanism (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1904)

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