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# i think i vaguely understood chapter one.
chapter two started off well, but i have spent three hours getting half of exercise 2B wrong. bloody thing.
(, Sun 12 Oct 2003, 22:07, archived)
# chapters?
i'll have you know i did an a-level course without textbooks, thank you.

may be part of the underlying problem with my lack of maths now, mind.
(, Sun 12 Oct 2003, 22:08, archived)
# well centres of mass along a line = fine
centres of mass in shapes = i haven't got a fucking clue and it makes no bloody sense.
(, Sun 12 Oct 2003, 22:10, archived)
# ahh
is that were you take a zero point, then split the complex shape into simple shapes, multiply the centre co-ordinate of each shape by its mass, sum them, and divide by the total mass?

hope so.
(, Sun 12 Oct 2003, 22:12, archived)
# that's the badger.
the EVIL badger.
(, Sun 12 Oct 2003, 22:17, archived)