Sentence examples for centroid from inspiring English sources

In this case the volume of the solid generated equals the product of the area of the region and the length of the path traversed by the centroid.

He developed the famous expression σ = My/I for the stress due to the pure bending of a homogenous linear elastic beam; here M is the torque, or bending moment, y is the distance of a point from an axis that passes through the section centroid, parallel to the torque axis, and I is the integral of y2 over the section area.

Pappus's theorem, in mathematics, theorem named for the 4th-century Greek geometer Pappus of Alexandria that describes the volume of a solid, obtained by revolving a plane region D about a line L not intersecting D, as the product of the area of D and the length of the circular path traversed by the centroid of D during the revolution.

There is a conspicuous grouping of stars, sometimes called the Cassiopeia-Taurus Group, that has a centroid at approximately 600 light-years distance.

At one corner, he pointed to a nondescript birch tree cramped into a tiny backyard and said that, according to his analysis of data on New York's six million trees, that birch was "the center of the urban forest" — another centroid.

(Intersections aren't evenly distributed across the boroughs, which is why this centroid is different from the one at the start of the walk).

Once you include Northern Ireland and use a different measurement, the so-called centroid method, in which you have to imagine the landmass as cardboard cutout balancing on the tip of a pencil, the centre moves to the middle of Morecambe Bay.

He spews numbers about lift, gravity, buoyancy, "theoretical centroids," balloon flight positions, profiles and on and on.

The walk, called "Centroids and Asphalt," was about paying attention to "the different things that shape the city, different flows of matter and information," Freeman said.

The two walks took in Brooklyn — "Centroids and Asphalt" in Bushwick and "Brighton Zaum" in Brighton Beach — sought to retune antennae, to look below the surface and beyond the obvious.

(Centroids, check).