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Lesson: Chapter 12 — Equilibrium of Forces

12.4. Equilibrium under three non-parallel forces 3 of 8

Question 3

What is the centre of gravity?

The right answer is the one marked above.

The single point at which the whole weight of a body can be taken to act. However large the body, its weight can then be treated as one force.

It sits at the middle only for a body of uniform shape. For a lamina of irregular shape it does not lie at the middle at all.

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