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Old Sun Aug 10, 2003, 10:35pm
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally posted by Dan_ref


Somehow I always thought that in a uniform field center of mass = center of gravity. Apparently these people agree:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/cm.html

Did I miss something?

Edit: Maybe they differ when doing dynamic analysis?

[Edited by Dan_ref on Aug 8th, 2003 at 10:31 AM]

Yup - only problem is, good luck finding a uniform gravitational field.
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