Report of paper presentation on 14.07.

2010
Centre of Gravity: Its the mean location of gravitational forces acting on the body. A child who starts walking
often falls. He is unable to walk properly because he cannot balance centre of gravity. Any person is having
centre of gravity, while walking, running jumping we are balancing centre of gravity. A person falls when the
centre of gravity is not balanced.
Depending on C.G. the equilibrium is of four types,
Four types of equilibrium:
i) Stable Equilibrium - here the object regains its original state after disturbing once.
ii) Unstable Equilibrium - here the object do not regain its original state after disturbing once.
iii) Neutral Equilibrium there is no change for equilibrium for this object.
iv) Fulcrum below C.G this type of equilibrium can be seen in dolls. They regain their structure after
being disturbed.
Examples for each are explained in detail.
Stable can be converted to unstable by adding mass on top, Unstable can be converted to stable by increasing
the base at the bottom.
Activity 1 - Sit comfortably and stand from your seat without leaning or supporting.
Activity 2 Take 3step distance from wall. Stand at the 4
th
step lean against the wall. Now try to get up from
your position.
To get up from the chair either we have to take our legs to the C.G line of our body or we have to bring our
body to the base of legs.
When leaning against the wall our base goes out of the legs so we fall down.
While walking if we are not balancing C.G. we fall. While standing C.G of our body will be at the middle. While
raising hand C.G of our body will rise. While leaning forward C.G. of our body comes downward.
Boomerangs, Rings are the objects with C.G. outside the body.
Horse riding is difficult because the C.G of horse and rider need to be balanced.
Balancing of C.G examples are man walking on rope, toys, Gymnastics, use of long rod, bicycle or bike taking a
curve.
The paper presentation concluded with few visuals on C.G.