Question

Jane is sitting on a chair with her lower leg at a 30.0° angle with respect to the vertical, as shown. You need to develop a computer model of her leg to assist in some medical research. If you assume that her leg can be modeled as two uniform cylinders, one with mass M1 = 17 kg and length L1 = 35 cm and one with mass M2 = 10 kg and length L2 = 46 cm, where is the center of mass of her leg?

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