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My Homework 5 Presentation. By Dominic Macias. imagine a bus. A Bus. Low and wide objects are most stable. Unstable objects tip over easy, and stable objects don’t. The position of the centre of mass is all-important in determining whether an object is stable or not.
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My Homework 5 Presentation By Dominic Macias
imagine a bus A Bus • Low and wide objects are most stable. Unstable objects tip over easy, and stable objects don’t. The position of the centre of mass is all-important in determining whether an object is stable or not. • The most stable objects have a wide base and a low centre of mass. An object will begin to topple if its centre of mass moves beyond the edge of its base. Again it’s because of moments – if the weight doesn’t act in line with the pivot, it’ll cause a resultant moment. This will cause the object to tip over.
A crane • A crane has a very high centre of mass and so it is reliant on heavy objects to be added so that there isn’t a resultant moment. The base consists of engines and other equipment. Without the engine, and with the height that it is at, the object would not be at equilibrium but at a resultant moment if there wasn’t a large weight at the base.