Center of Mass of Disk with Circular Hole

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This Demonstration computes the center of mass of a disk of radius 1 with a circular hole of radius
located at a distance
from the center of
.
Contributed by: Erik Mahieu (April 2014)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Since the disk and the hole are symmetrical with respect to the axis, the
coordinate of the center of mass of the upper half is the
coordinate of the center of mass of the entire disk and hole. Therefore, only the upper half needs to be considered.
The function
defines the difference between the disk's outer circle and the edge of the circular hole. This is the net surface area at .
The function is the total mass moment relative to
.
Solving the equation for
gives the abscissa of the center of mass.
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