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Section 4.5
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Homework #6
• Chapter 4 problems:
– 10, 11, 18, 24, 39, 42, 43 & 47
– Must use integration methods to solve
– Due Monday, October 14
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Quiz #4
• Wednesday, October 9
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Last Lecture:
• Centroids of Areas, Volumes & Lines
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Centroid of Composite Bodies
• Basic shapes are added together to get the
composite centroid
– We look these up in Table 4.2
– This table will be supplied on future exams
• Problems
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Area Centroids
This case is representative of line and volume
centroids.
Divide total area into simple shapes
(rectangles, semi-circles)
Add up simple shapes
y
A2
x1
x2
A1
y1
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y2
A3
+
=
xc
x3
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yc
y3
x
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May Also Use Subtraction
A1
x2
x1
y1
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y
A2
=
y2
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yc
xc
x
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Composite Centroid of an Area
• Geometric center of the area
– Summation of the pieces (holes are negative)
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xc   xiAi
A i
– Where:
1
yc   yiAi
A i
A   Ai
i
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Composite Centroid of a Volume
• Geometric center of the volume
– Average of the first moment over entire volume
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xc   xiVi
V i
1
yc   yiVi
V i
– Where:
V   Vi
1
zc   ziVi
V i
i
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Examples
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