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  2. Center of pressure (fluid mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    The total force vector acting at the center of pressure is the surface integral of the pressure vector field across the surface of the body. The resultant force and center of pressure location produce an equivalent force and moment on the body as the original pressure field. Pressure fields occur in both static and dynamic fluid mechanics ...

  3. Center of pressure (terrestrial locomotion) - Wikipedia

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    Center of pressure is the location on the supporting surface where the resultant vertical force vector would act if it could be considered to have a single point of application. [ 1 ] A shift of CoP is an indirect measure of postural sway and thus a measure of a person’s ability to maintain balance.

  4. External ballistics - Wikipedia

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    The Magnus effect will act as a destabilizing force on any bullet with a center of pressure located ahead of the center of gravity, while conversely acting as a stabilizing force on any bullet with the center of pressure located behind the center of gravity. The location of the center of pressure depends on the flow field structure, in other ...

  5. Center of percussion - Wikipedia

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    Research has shown that the dominant physical mechanism in determining where the sweet spot is arises from the location of nodes in the vibrational modes of the bat, not the location of the center of percussion. [2] The center of percussion concept can be applied to swords. Being flexible objects, the "sweet spot" for such cutting weapons ...

  6. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    The total center of mass of the forks, cork, and toothpick is on top of the pen's tip. Significant aspects of the motion of an extended body can be understood by imagining the mass of that body concentrated to a single point, known as the center of mass. The location of a body's center of mass depends upon how that body's material is distributed.

  7. Aerodynamic center - Wikipedia

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    The aerodynamic center is the point at which the pitching moment coefficient for the airfoil does not vary with lift coefficient (i.e. angle of attack), making analysis simpler. [ 1 ] d C m d C L = 0 {\displaystyle {dC_{m} \over dC_{L}}=0} where C L {\displaystyle C_{L}} is the aircraft lift coefficient .

  8. Center of pressure - Wikipedia

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    Center of pressure may refer to: Center of pressure (fluid mechanics) Center of pressure (terrestrial locomotion) This page was last edited on 28 ...

  9. Center of mass - Wikipedia

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    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 analogy to statistics, the center of mass is the mean location of a distribution of mass in space.