Applied Mechanics - Engineering

Q1:

The locus of the instantaneous centre of a moving rigid body, is

A straight line

B involute

C centroid

D spiral.

ANS:C - centroid

The answer is centrode. Centrode, in kinematics, is the path traced by the instantaneous center of rotation of a rigid plane figure moving in a plane. The Centroid is the average position of all the points of an object.