centre of mass

How to find the centre of mass of an L shaped lamina formed by 3 squares of different masses?

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Aditya Bhutra ·

take any convenient point as origin.
write down r1,r2,r3 for the three squares of masses m1,m2, m3 in vector form
then rcm = m1r1 + m2r2 + m3r3m1+m2+m3

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