PHYSICS INVESTIGATORY

PROJECT

2018-19

NAME:DHRUV TIWARI

CLASS:11th

SECTION:SCIENCE

TOPIC:CENTRE OF GRAVITY

ROLL NO.14
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude and sincere

to Ms. Swati Khemaria (Principal) and Mr. Sanjay
Mehta(Vice Principal) of Adani Public School for
his encouragement and all the facilities that they
provided to carry out this project work.
I express my sincere thanks to Mr. Mukti Nath
Singh and Mr. Rahul Sharma, for his guidance to the
successful completion of this project. I take this
opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude
for their invaluable guidance, support, constant
encouragement, contructive comments, sympathetic
attitude and immense motivation.
I can’t forget to offer my sincere thanks to my
classmates too who helped me to carry out the
experiment work successfully.
 INDEX

 Introduction
 Aim
 Apparatus Required
 Theory
 Procedure
 Observations
 Conclusions
 Precautions
 Bibliography

AIM

To design an appropriate project for understanding the concept

of the centre of gravity.
 APPARATUS REQUIRED

 A fork and a spoon

 A toothpick

 A glass cup

 A lighter
 THEORY

A centre of gravity of a material body is a point

that may be used for a summary description of
gravitational interactions. In a uniform
gravitational field, the center of mass serves as
the center of gravity.
This concept is sometimes useful in designing
static structures or in predicting the behavior of
a moving body when it is acted on by gravity.
The location of a body’s center of gravity may
coincide with the geometric centre of body
especially in a symmetrical shaped object.
 PROCEDURE

1. Place the glass cup on the table.

2. Find the centre of gravity of the toothpick.
3. Take the fork and the spoon and fix the spoon with the
fork such that the 1st spike and 4th spike of the fork
overlaps the convex face of the spoon and 2nd spike and
3rd spike of the fork overlaps the concave face of the
spoon.
4. Fix the toothpick in between the 2nd spike and 3rd spike of
the fork.
5. Now place the toothpick at the edge of the glass cup such
that its centre of mass coincide with the edge of the glass
cup so the system will be balanced.
6. Partially burn the toothpick till the point of its centre of
mass.
7. Record your observations.
 OBSERVATIONS

You will observe that the whole system is

balanced even after the partial burning of the
toothpick it means that it does not effect the
centre of gravity of the toothpick.

You will also observe that the toothpick does

not continue to burn past the metal of the fork
or the glass is that when it reaches these points
its robbed of its heat and goes out.
 CONCLUSION

1. The whole mass of the object is concentrated in the

centre which is called centre of mass or centre of
gravity.
2. The centre of mass is always remains constant in an
object.
3. The centre of mass depends on the length of the
object i.e., different object has different centre of
mass or centre
of gravity.
4. It also depends upon the total mass of the the
object.
 PRECAUTIONS

1. Handle glass cup carefully.

2. Use the lighter carefully.
3. Be precise and accurate in your calculations of
centre of mass.
4. The fork and spoon should be interlocked
properly.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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