Computing center of mass

Win_odd Dhamnekar

Win_odd Dhamnekar

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Find the center of mass of the region R with the given density function \(\displaystyle \delta(x,y)\)


1)R = {(x,y) : y ≥ 0, x ≥ 0 , 1 ≤ x2 + y2 ≤ 4 }, \(\displaystyle \delta(x,y) = \sqrt{x^2 + y^2}\)

How to answer this question?

My attempt to answer this question:

[math]M = \displaystyle\int_0^2 \displaystyle\int_0^x (x^2+ y^2)^{\frac32}dy dx = 10.0348925582[/math]
Is this computation of M correct? How to compute M in cylindrical coordinates?

How to compute center of mass in any coordinates?(spherical, cylindrical, cartesian)
 
A hint: the center of mass has two coordinates, so computing one integral isn't going to be enough.
 
Dhamnekar Winod said:
Find the center of mass of the region R with the given density function \(\displaystyle \delta(x,y)\)


1)R = {(x,y) : y ≥ 0, x ≥ 0 , 1 ≤ x2 + y2 ≤ 4 }, \(\displaystyle \delta(x,y) = \sqrt{x^2 + y^2}\)

How to answer this question?

My attempt to answer this question:

[math]M = \displaystyle\int_0^2 \displaystyle\int_0^x (x^2+ y^2)^{\frac32}dy dx = 10.0348925582[/math]
Is this computation of M correct? How to compute M in cylindrical coordinates?

How to compute center of mass in any coordinates?(spherical, cylindrical, cartesian)
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Assuming you did the integration correctly (I didn't check) you have found the total mass, not the center of mass. To do that you need
[imath]x_{cm} = \dfrac{ \int_A x \delta ~ dA }{ \int \delta ~ dA }[/imath]

and similarly for y.

To do this in polar coordinates you want [imath]\int_1^2 \int_0^{\pi/2} ... r ~ d \theta ~ dr[/imath] for this example.

-Dan

Addendum: You have the wrong integration limits. x and y start at 1, not 0. Polar coordinates are definitely the way to go.

It would be something like
[math]\int_1^2 \int_{\sqrt{1 - x^2}}^{\sqrt{4 - x^2}} ... ~ dy ~ dx[/math]
 
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The center of mass of the region R is \(\displaystyle (\overline{x}, \overline{y})\) where,

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I computed M (the denominator) in the computaion of \(\displaystyle \overline{x}, \overline{y} \).
 
Cartesian Coordinate.

\(\displaystyle M = \int_{0}^{1}\int_{\sqrt{1-x^2}}^{\sqrt{4-x^2}} \sqrt{x^2 + y^2} \ \ dy \ dx + \int_{1}^{2}\int_{0}^{\sqrt{4-x^2}} \sqrt{x^2 + y^2} \ \ dy \ dx\)

Polar Coordinate.

\(\displaystyle M = \int_{0}^{\pi/2}\int_{1}^{2} r^2 \ dr \ d\theta\)
 
So, the center of mass of the region R is \(\displaystyle (\overline{x}, \overline{y}) =\left(\frac{45}{14\pi}, \frac{45}{14\pi}\right)\)
 
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