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define centre of mass of a rigid body

OpenStudy (anonymous):

[from wikipedia. The center of mass is the unique point at the center of a distribution of mass in space that has the property that the weighted position vectors relative to this point sum to zero.] in the case of rigid body, \[\sum_{i=1}^{n} m _{i} \left( r _{i}-R \right)= 0\]

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