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rahul.mishra
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On finding the center of mass of a solid hemisphere i came up with some different result.
Here's what i did...
consider a small ring at a distance r from the center of the hemisphere and one more ring at a distance
of r+dr from center of the ring.
let, mass of the small element formed by the two rings be dm
so,
dm = http://data.artofproblemsolving.com/images/latex/1/8/9/189c6482a7f0b088a7d84607b3df5837533486eb.gif
Clearly by symmetry w.r.t origin taken Xcm = 0
now, Ycm = 1/M http://data.artofproblemsolving.com/images/latex/f/4/e/f4e81964f7df0126c6c05827f0d5f0b972fc5f45.gif = 1/M http://data.artofproblemsolving.com/images/latex/9/a/a/9aabc0767384d5b00970c757ff71f80cd37d11eb.gif
but we all know this is maybe absurd... its 3R/8 actually...
don't give me an alternate way... i know it gives the right result...
but where am i wrong in my soln?
Here's what i did...
consider a small ring at a distance r from the center of the hemisphere and one more ring at a distance
of r+dr from center of the ring.
let, mass of the small element formed by the two rings be dm
so,
dm = http://data.artofproblemsolving.com/images/latex/1/8/9/189c6482a7f0b088a7d84607b3df5837533486eb.gif
Clearly by symmetry w.r.t origin taken Xcm = 0
now, Ycm = 1/M http://data.artofproblemsolving.com/images/latex/f/4/e/f4e81964f7df0126c6c05827f0d5f0b972fc5f45.gif = 1/M http://data.artofproblemsolving.com/images/latex/9/a/a/9aabc0767384d5b00970c757ff71f80cd37d11eb.gif
but we all know this is maybe absurd... its 3R/8 actually...
don't give me an alternate way... i know it gives the right result...
but where am i wrong in my soln?
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