Thanks for explaining it further. It is basically my whole exam for High school Physics class. I have not gone over intergal calculus yet. I am pretty sure he just wants the difference in COM height when the truncated cone is standing upright and when it is laying on the ground so that the PE...
I don't know if I understood you completely, but I solved for x in the second equation and substituted in the first and got.
Y0= y - (3/p PI (R^2+Y^2-2RY). I am thinking that is not right. What I had begun to do before was take 1/2V= 1/3 PI H (R1^2 + R1*R2 + R2^2) in a system of equations, one...
Could you explain how I can do that?
I was thinking making half the volume equal to the volume of the truncated cone with the unknown of the top radius, but then I realized the height is also an unknown. I am really kinda clueless on how to find the COG because I have never done it before...
Thanks, wow I feel dumb now. I know I have done that before. The only thing I don't think I have done is finding the COG of an object... well if I have I don't remember. Thanks for helping me.
I have been presented with this problem. I somewhat know what I need, I just don't know how to get it :blushing:
The problem:
A truncated cone, top diameter of 1m bottom diameter of 1.5m and a height of 10m. With a given density(I do not have it with me at this moment, I do not remember...