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Some Graphical Methods for Determining Centres of Gravity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

R. F. Muirhead
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This method is associated with the well-known construction of a triangle equal in area to a given polygon.

In Fig. 1 let ABCDD1C1B1A be the polygonal circuit enclosing the area, and let DD1, be any side not adjacent to A.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 32 , February 1913 , pp. 36 - 43
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1913