Centre of gravity and stability

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1. The turning effect of a force
2. Centre of gravity and stability
3. Perpendicular distance from the pivot
4. Clockwise and anticlockwise moments
5. Verifying the principle of moments
6. Finding an unknown force or distance
7. A beam on two supports
8. When the beam itself has weight
9. Torque on shafts and tools
10. Couples and pure rotation
11. Centre of gravity of regular bodies
12. Locating the centre of gravity of an irregular lamina
13. Investigating what makes an object stable
14. Moments in everyday tools
15. Stability around Kenya