Which COG Is The Best For A Stable Life Equilibrium?
Spoiler Alert: It Is Not Your Centre Of Gravity.
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
The first time I heard that quote was in an introduction to physics in High school at “Lycée Lamine Gueye,” Dakar, Senegal.
I wondered who that Archimedes guy was because, clearly, he was bold.
The secret to that bold statement: the COG or Center Of Gravity.
No, there will be no complicated maths here. Just bare with me!
“In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the balance point) is the unique point where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero.”
Source: Wikipedia
Let’s assume, in the universe of this article, that the center of mass is the same as the COG. It is an excellent approximation of our reality at ground level on Earth.
Let’s take a simple example. It’s Sunday, before 2019 (You will understand why soon.) You want to sleep over, and Bryan, your young son, is turning you crazy. As a last…
