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Grade 11Mechanics

A square lamina of side a and a circular lamina of diameter a are placed touching each other. Find distance of center of mass from O, the center of square

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8 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Yaswanth Phani Kommineni
8 Years ago
Mass is directly proportional to area so we can take Area instead of mass
Distance of CM from O=[0(a^2)+a(pi.a^2/4)]/a^2+pi.a^2/4
                                     =pi.a/(pi+4)