Planar lamina:
\A thin flat plate of material of constant density is called a planar lamina.
\Moments and center of mass of a planar lamina:
\Let and
be continuous functions such that
on
, and consider the planar lamina of uniform density
bounded by the graphs of
and
.
The moments about the -and
-axis are
.
.
The center of mass is
and
, where
is the mass of the lamina.
A thin flat plate of material of constant density is called a planar lamina.
\The moments about the -and
-axis are
.
.
The center of mass is
and
, where
is the mass of the lamina.