Determining the Centre of a Body in Mechanics
Channel: Calvin Rans
Date: 2020-09-04

Engineers often reduce the objects we analyze to single points, but how do we determine where this point should be? In this video, we will review the concepts behind and differences between three types of centres - the centroid, the centre of mass, and the centre of gravity.

This video is part of a series of blended learning videos for the course Engineering Mechanics: Statics with the Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering programme at TUDelft.

0:00 Introduction
1:33 Different types of centres
2:12 Deriving the centroid of an Area
5:52 Centroid of a Volume

6:50 Centre of Mass
8:24 Centre of Gravity