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The Center of Mass of a Soft Spring
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Serna, Juan D.; Joshi, Amitabh – College Mathematics Journal, 2011
This article uses calculus to find the center of mass of a soft, vertically suspended, cylindrical helical spring, which necessarily is stretched non-uniformly by the action of gravity. A general expression for the vertical position of the center of mass is obtained and compared with other results in the literature.
Descriptors: Calculus, Comparative Analysis, Mathematical Concepts, College Mathematics