According to Wikipedia, the center of mass of a volume is the [X, Y, Z] integral we see divided by the total mass. This means that [X, Y, Z] is actually not the center of mass in general (at least based on how those starred quantities are defined in the assignment), but rather a scalar multiple of the center of mass. It happens to make no difference computationally in the assignment because the (constant) density is 1, but this is still a bit surprising. Can the readme be changed to reflect this?
dilevin
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4 years ago
According to Wikipedia, the center of mass of a volume is the [X, Y, Z] integral we see divided by the total mass. This means that [X, Y, Z] is actually not the center of mass in general (at least based on how those starred quantities are defined in the assignment), but rather a scalar multiple of the center of mass. It happens to make no difference computationally in the assignment because the (constant) density is 1, but this is still a bit surprising. Can the readme be changed to reflect this?