Recent content by Tomas Carvalho

I get what you mean, but it seems different. I we have a homogenous body, shouldn't this hold? I get your example, but if in the case you described, the two bodies had the same density (which is the case for a homogenous body), then wouldn't the center of mass lie inside the larger body (despite...

I know it doesn't divide it into two equal parts, but I thought it divided it into two parts of equal area as long as it passed through the center of mass. Maybe that's not always true...

Homework Statement We have a circle of radius 4 with center at the origin of a referential, and a circle hole in it of radius 1 and center at (-2,0). We're supposed to calculate the center of mass. 2.MY QUESTION. I know, by the usual formulas for calculating center of mass I get 2/15 as the x...