Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Centroids!

Centroid are the centers of masses, mostly used in construction of buildings through geometric shapes. Finding the centroid allows engineers to create a safer building, and a stronger one.
We had a worksheet, 2.1.1, and in the worksheet, we were asked to compute multiple centroids of usual geometric shapes, such as rectangles, circles, and triangles.
It was all pretty simple, until there were crazy shapes introduced, like a rectangle with negative space in forms of a semicircle, and a rectangle.
After that we had to create our own centroid both in reality and a virtual one on MDSolids.
MDSolids gives you a very accurate measurements that you enter into the program, as well as the exact placement of the centroid.
Pictures will be added