Questions tagged [centroid]
"The centroid or geometric center of a plane or solid figure is the arithmetic mean ("average") position of all the points in the shape. " This tag is for questions about the centroid of a geometrical shape, its properties and computation.
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In a triangle, G is the centroid of triangle ADC. AE is perpendicular to FC. BD = DC and AC = 12. Find AB.
G is the centroid of the triangle ADC. AE is perpendicular to FC. BD = DC
and AC = 12. Find AB.
According to the solution manual, we can let the midpoint of AC be H. D, G, and H are collinear as G is ...
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Coordinates of the centroid of volume
Determine the coordinates $$(x,y,z)$$
of the centroid of volume of this composite machine element.
Here is the machine element:
machine
I know you have to use some integral with dV but I'm not sure ...
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Centroid coordinates of an irregular quadrilateral within a rectangular plane
I am developing a robotic project; the robot moves within a rectangular area 80cm x 180cm on a level horizontal surface. The area is bounded by four vertical walls, the robot has onboard four ultra-...
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How to determine that a cluster of points is actually two separate clusters?
I have a cluster of points defined by $x$ and $y$ coordinates. I know I can work out the center of the cluster by taking the average of $x$ and the average of $y$.
Sometimes when I plot those points ...
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In triangle $ABC$, $G$ is the centroid, $I$ is the incenter, $GI$ || $BC$, what is $\frac{AB+AC}{BC}$?
In triangle $ABC$, $G$ is the centroid, $I$ is the incenter, $GI$ ||
$BC$, what is $\frac{AB+AC}{BC}$?
I have little to no idea what to do with this problem. I drew the diagram and called the point ...
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Coordinates of centroid of a triangle
If $A(x_1,y_1) , B(x_2,y_2) , C(x_3,y_3)$ be the vertices of a triangle then prove that coordinates of centroid are given by $(\frac{(x_1 + x_2 + x_3)}3 , \frac{(y_1 + y_2 + y_3)}3)$
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Centroid Math Notes
Was there a typo in the notes? I noticed that when calculating the center of mass for y they do not square twice as shown in the formula. Can anyone confirm this?
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find centroid of hyperpyramid
I'm having trouble computing centroid of hyperpyramid (assume we have n points in n dimension). I already search a lot and I find how can calculate triangle and pyramid centroid, but I don't know how ...
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Triangle inscribed in a circle,2 points fixed and 1 moving. The track of centroid makes a circle but how do I prove it without cartesian coordinate?
Triangle ABC and circle O. A and B are fixed, but C is moving on the circle.
So I have triangle ABC and circle O. A and B are fixed on the circle, but C is moving around the circle. Let G is the ...
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What is the centroid of the area bounded by x^3 and 10-x?
I understand what the problem is asking, but I don't fully understand the concept behind it.
I know the formula for x bar is 1/A times the integral of x(f(x)-g(x)),
and that the formula for y bar is ...
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Constructing equilateral triangle from three equilateral triangles.
I have heard about this problem some time ago and don't remember all the details.Therefore problem's conditions may have some mistakes.
Problem:
We have three arbitrary (size of edges, location and ...
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Finding the area of a triangle if the distances from the centroid to the vertices are $3$, $4$, $5$ [duplicate]
Let $G$ be the centroid of $\triangle ABC$, and let $AG=3$, $BG=4$, $CG=5$. Find the area of $\triangle ABC$.
So I calculated the lengths of the diagonals which is $9$, $12$, $15$, but now I don't ...
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Get vertex value that shapes 90 degrees with triangle centroid
I have this triangle:
I'm trying to get the vertex value highlighted in the green circle in order to draw that red line. Is there any equation that I can use to extract that value?
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Centroid of area enclosed by $x^n$ and $x^{1/n}$.
I am interested in finding the centroid of the surface enclosed by the lines $y=x^n$ and $y=x^{1/n}$ where $n \in \mathbb N, n >1$. The exercise, gives the following sketch.
I know that in order ...
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Why is k proportional to centroid linkage distance mean and variance in k-means?
I've noticed that if I'm doing k-means clustering (in MATLAB) on any set of data, the mean and variance in centroid linkage distance appears to always be proportional to k.
Is k always proportional ...
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Is the number of convex regions proportional to the inter-region centroid variance?
Say I completely divide some euclidean space into n convex regions for different values of n. Veronoi cells would be a good example.
Say I take a subset of m regions. It seems almost obvious to me ...
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Locus of centroid of a $\triangle{ABC}$ with $A=(\cos\alpha,\sin\alpha)$, $B=(\sin\alpha,-\cos\alpha)$, and $C=(1,2)$
If $A(\cos\alpha, \sin\alpha)$, $B(\sin\alpha, -\cos\alpha)$ and $C(1,2)$ are the vertices of $\triangle ABC$, find the locus of the triangle's centroid as $\alpha$ varies.
Let centroid be $(h,k)$,
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Centroid of a plane figure of a plane figure.
A plane figure is enclosed by the parabola $y^2 =4x$ and the line $y=2x$. Determine the position of the centroid of the figure.
Here is what I tried :
Plotted the graph.
$y=4ax, y=2x \\
4x(x-1)=0 \...
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Finding centroid's coordinates using Pappus theorem
The task is to find the centroid of the given triangle (see the image above). We also should use the fact that the volume of a cone of radius $r$ and height $h$ is $V = \frac{1}{3}\Pi r^2h$. My ...
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How to use Vectors to find the centroid of a tetrahedron? [closed]
Suppose that four points - A,B,C,D (with position vectors a,b,c,d) are the vertices of a tetrahedron. And the mid points of BC, CA, AB, AD, BD, CD are denoted by P,Q,R,U,V,W.
Using these info, I ...
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The centroid of a set lies in its convex hull
I've come across the following claim on a Wikipedia page about the centroid:
The geometric centroid of a convex object always lies in the object
How should I prove this claim for convex subsets of ...
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Area moments of a Freeman chain contour
The area moments of a polygon can be computed by generalizations of the shoelace formula for area.
In particular, the first and second order moments are given by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Finding Centroid of a curve
$$x=e^t , y = \sqrt{2} t , z= \ e^{-t} ; ~~ ~~ 0\leq t \leq 1$$
Find the centroid of this curve.
I know one formula for centroid which is $x = \frac{\int {x dx dy}}{\int dx dy}$ and for y as well, ...
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Two parallelograms and a centroid
A parallelogram $ABCD$ is given. The points $M_1$ and $M_2$ are on
$AC$ and $M_3$ and $M_4$ are on $BD$ such that $AM_1 = CM_2 =
\frac{1}{3}AC$ and $BM_3=\frac{1}{3}BD$. If $M_1M_3M_2M_4$ is a
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An identity associated with the centroid of a triangle
Four year ago, I am looking for a proof of my identity as follows:
Let $ABC$ be a triangle, let $G$ be the centroid of $ABC$. Let $P$ be any point on the plane. Let $H, N, O$ on the plane such that: $...
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How do I find the moments and center of mass of a Lamina with given density?
I am trying to solve for the center of mass of the shape given below. I started by finding the area of the shape, which is
$A = Atriangle + Acircle/4$
$ = 1/2 + pi/4$
$=(2+pi)/4$
then I used the ...
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Calculate coordinates of a centroid of $ABC$
We have a triangle $ABC$, where on the cartesian coordinate system:
$A$ lies on $[-3, -2]$,
$B$ lies on $[1, 1]$,
$C$ lies on $[0, -6]$.
How do we calculate coordinates for the centroid of this ...
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Proof that the triangle formed by mass centers is equilateral.
Let $ABC$ be a triangle and consider $A_1$, $B_1$, $C_1$ outside the triangle such that triangles $ABC_1$, $BCA_1$ and $ACB_1$ are equilaterals.
Consider now $A_2$, $B_2$ and $C_2$ mass centres of $...
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Area of the intersection of two triangles.
Let $\triangle{ABC}$ be a triangle with $AB=5$, $BC=7$, and $CA=4$. Define $D$, $E$, and $F$, to be the midpoints of $AB$, $BC$, and $CA$ respectively. Let $G$ the intersection of the medians of $\...
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Intuitive Explanation to Pappus Theorem
Pappus's theorem is as follows:
First theorem:
The first theorem states that the surface area A of a surface of revolution generated by rotating a plane curve C about an axis external to C and on ...
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Centroid within non-convex 2d polygon
The centroid of an object is defined as the arithmetic mean of all points of the object. For non-convex objects, the centroid is often not a part of the object itself:
Is there a definition of a ...
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centroid algorithm robust to missing poins
I need to find a center point of a person given the coordinates of all the joints.
The joints of a person can be represented as a nodes of a graph with a fixed structure. The catch is some of the ...
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$z_1^2+z_2^2+z_3^2=3z_0^2$ if $z_1,z_2,z_3$ be the vertices of an equilateral triangle and $z_0$ be the circumcentre
Prove that, if $z_1,z_2,z_3$ be the vertices of an equilateral triangle and $z_0$ be the circumcentre, then $z_1^2+z_2^2+z_3^2=3z_0^2$
My Attempt
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z_0=\frac{z_1+z_2+z_3}{3}\implies 3z_0=z_1+z_2+z_3\...
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How to solve this particular task about centroids
Can anyone help me with 29.I know how to find centroids when one function is given but in this one I don't think that knowing only the function of circle or rectangle will help us.I found that there ...
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How to find the best fit point inside a cluster?
I have a cluster with many points.
Like this:
Where I can visually identify a cluster of points and a ...
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Find the total mass and COM of a body
So in this exercise I am asked to find the center of mass of a certain solid defined by 2 elipsoids that have the following parametrizations:
Elipsoid A:
$$x=\cos\alpha \sin\theta\\
y=\frac{1}{2}\...
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How to find the barycenter/center of mass of this 2d shape without calculation?
I am given this shape (or any similar shape which is symmetrical). How can I determine the barycenter without calculating anything?
My thought intuitively is, that the center should be at C, since it ...
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Coordinates of the centroid in a 3D rectangle
I have a 3D rectangle and I have to find the 3D coordinates of its centroid. I tried to take 4 vertices, one let's say the origin $o$ and the three adjacent vertices $a, b, c$.
I computed the ...
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Finding lengths of sides on triangles with 3 given medians and lengths
The medians of $ā³TUV$ are $\overline{TX}, \overline{UY},$ and $\overline{VW}$. They meet at a single point $Z$. In other words, $Z$ is the centroid of $ā³TUV$. Suppose $\overline{UY}=33$, $\overline{TZ}...
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Finding the centroid of a tetrahedron
I have four points to form a tetahedron
$$A=(0,-\frac{1}{2},-\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}})
\\B=(0,\frac{1}{2},-\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}})
\\C=(-\frac{1}{2},0,\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}})
\\D=(\...
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Volumetric center of a polygon?
Is there a quick and efficient algorithm for calculating the volumetric center (probably the wrong term) of a polygon like that shown in the figure below somewhere around the blue dot? I'm not ...
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Can a spiral have its centroid at the origin?
A spiral is a curve $\gamma$ with the polar equation $r=f(\theta)$ where $f$ is a continuous positive strictly monotone function on some interval $[a, b]$, $-\infty<a<b<\infty$. Best known ...
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K-Means equality proof
Is there any geometrical and or short proof for the equality
${\displaystyle {\underset { }{ }}\sum _{i=1}^{k}\sum _{\mathbf {x}
\in S_{i}}\left\|\mathbf {x} -{\boldsymbol {\mu}}_{i}\right\|^{2}}={\...
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How to find optimum (least square error) “square splitting circular arc” with given two centroids?
I am looking for an analytic solution for the following problem. A unit square is given. Coordinates of two points inside the square are given. What is the best circular arc which splits the square in ...
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Convex sum order
If I have a strictly convex function $f(x)$ with $f''(x)>0$
and if I know that for some $a\le b \le c$ and $x \le y \le z$ I have
$$a+b+c = x+y+z$$
$$f(a)+f(b)+f(c)=f(x)+f(y)+f(z)$$
can I ...
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Centroid of a non-polygonal concave shape determined by an equilateral triangle an its incircle
I have a diagram here of an equilateral triangle ABC, centre O, where circle centre O has tangents which are all three sides of the triangle ABC. M is the midpoint of AB, and F is the intersection of ...
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Better “centerpoint” than centroid for placing a map marker inside a concave region (that may have holes)?
I'm using the centroid of polygons to attach a marker in a map application. This works definitely fine for convex polygons and quite good for many concave polygons.
However, some polygons (banana, ...
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Line through triangle's vertex-centroid midpoint
I've been struggling for a couple of days trying to solve this geometry problem. Here it is:
On this triangle, $G$ is its centroid (meaning that $AM = MC$). Also, $BN = NG$. He wants to know the ...
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What is the locus of centroid of triangle OAB?
A variable circle having fixed radius $a$, passes through origin and meets the coordinate axes in point $A$ and $B$. What is the locus of centroid of triangle $OAB$, $O$ being the origin?
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Centroid of quadrilateral on coordinate plane
I'm having trouble understanding the motivation between finding the centroid of a quadrilateral.
Q: Find the centroid of a quadrilateral with vertices at (-8,12), (7,15) (13,-9), and (-2,-3).
I've ...
