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Re: Inquiring minds want to know
By:Mike Scarborough
Date: 1/31/2008, 5:51 pm
In Response To: Re: Inquiring minds want to know (Acors)

: uhmm, when you get your underwater section isnt the center of buoyancy and
: gravity the same thing?

I wrote a whole paragraph agreeing with your answer. . .

But then I thought: The CofB and the CofG coincide when viewed in a waterline section, but they don't when viewed in a centerline section or a cross section. The difference is what stability is all about. So I hesitate to say they are the same thing, although in certain views they have the same coordinates.

Mike

Messages In This Thread

Other: center of lateral area
eric -- 1/29/2008, 11:30 pm
Re: Inquiring minds want to know
Mike Scarborough -- 1/31/2008, 11:15 am
Re: Inquiring minds want to know
Acors -- 1/31/2008, 4:50 pm
Re: Inquiring minds want to know
eric -- 2/1/2008, 12:28 pm
Re: Inquiring minds want to know
Acors -- 2/1/2008, 1:42 pm
Re: Inquiring minds want to know
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/1/2008, 2:40 pm
Re: Inquiring minds want to know
Bill Hamm -- 2/1/2008, 12:29 am
Re: Inquiring minds want to know
Mike Scarborough -- 1/31/2008, 5:51 pm
Re: Other: center of lateral area
Chris Ostlind -- 1/30/2008, 12:12 am
Re: Other: center of lateral area
Acors -- 1/31/2008, 10:45 am
Re: Other: center of lateral area
eric -- 1/30/2008, 12:29 pm
Re: Other: center of lateral area
Dave Houser -- 1/30/2008, 7:54 pm
Re: Other: center of lateral area
Dave Houser -- 1/31/2008, 12:55 am
Re: Other: center of lateral area
eric -- 1/30/2008, 8:41 pm