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When the circular hole is cut from the circular plate, the total moment of the plate is equal to the moment of the white portion and the orange portion.
is the radius of the total circle.
distance between centres of both the circles=
Thus, the mass of the plate
And the mass of the removed portion of the plate
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
Let be the thickness of the plate and the density be .
Then, the mass of the plate
And the mass of the removed portion of the plate
The goal of this problem is to find the location of the centre of mass of a uniform circular plate under the specified parameters.
Centre of mass of the remaining plate after removing the smaller plate can be obtained as
where
and,
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