Sierpinski triangle , It turns out the moment of inertia can be calculated. If the moment of inertial through its center and perpendicular to the plane can be written as . What is the value of , where is the side length and and are co-prime positive integers?
The figure above isNot an original problem
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Consider the next smaller triangle.
It has mass 3 M and length 2 l . So its Moment of Inertia about its center of mass is I s = B A 3 M 4 l 2
Moment of Inertia of smaller part about the center of mass of the bigger part is :- I s C M = B A 1 2 M l 2 + 3 M 1 2 l 2 I s C M = B A 1 2 M l 2 + 3 6 M l 2 The total Moment of Inertia about the center of mass is:- I C M = 3 I s C M ⟹ B A M l 2 = 3 I s C M Solving this, we get:- B A = 9 1