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melly21297

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What is the center of mass?
 a. The exact middle of any object, measured from all its edges.
  b. The location that the object would concentrate to if we imagined it to shrink to a point.
  c. An arbitrarily chosen point in the object used to describe its motion.
  d. A point in space that the object is moving toward.
  e. A point in space to which an object is attracted.

Question 2

When an object such as a monkey wrench is tossed into the air, the wrench:
 a. translates around its center of mass while the center of mass rotates around a point in the wrench.
  b. rotates around its center of mass while its center of mass undergoes translational motion.
  c. undergoes rotational motion around an imaginary point in space.
  d. undergoes either translational motion or rotational motion, not both.
  e. undergoes translational motion that depends on the rotational motion around the center of mass.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

b



melly21297

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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