For this question you need to know the centres of
mass of the hemisphere and the cone and they are calculated below
(you will need to fill in some of the intermediate steps for yourself).
You can use the positions of the centres of mass given here.
In order to find the centre of mass of the hemisphere consider a
cylindrical element of thickness dx at distance x from the
centre of the base O. Then the radius of this slice is Ö(a2 - x2). The position of the centre of mass is found by taking moments
about O and summing these moments for all the 'slices' by integrating:
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_ x
=
ó õ
a
0
x ×wp(a2-x2)dx
which gives
_ x
=
3a8
.
Similarly to find the centre of mass of the uniform cone, a distance
_ x
along the axis of symmetry from the vertex V, consider
cylindrical elements of thickness dx and radius
axh
(from similar triangles). The position of the centre of mass is
again found by taking moments, in this case about V: