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Grade 12General Physics

What is the difference between centre of mass and centre of gravity?

Profile image of Saikat Singh
16 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of ethan humt
16 Years ago

contre of mass and centre of gravity are same when there is uniform dgravitational field

if the body is in uniform gravitational field then they  can be different.

Profile image of Atul  Nagar
7 Years ago
Both Center of Mass and CoG are same for small objects. However they are different for very large objects , which has dimesnions so large that different parts of body experience different gravitational force due to variation in value of g.