Title: 15_2 Calculating Centres of Mass
Course: HELM Workbooks 2023-2024 > Section: HELM 15: Applications of Integration 2

We show how the idea of integration as the limit of a sum can be used to ﬁnd the centre of mass of an object such as a thin plate (like a sheet of metal). Such a plate is also known as a lamina. An understanding of the term moment is necessary and so this concept is introduced.