Moment of inertia

Find the moment inertia of a thin rectangle with sides a , b a, b and mass m m around axis perpendicular to the picture and pass through the centar of rectangle.

Hint: Moment of inertia of the rod around axis passing through his centar is I = m l 2 12 I=\frac{ml^2}{12} where l l is the lenght of the rod.

a = 3 , b = 4 , m = 12 a=3, b=4, m=12


The answer is 25.

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Ok let's make a coordinate system and put the origin in centar of our rectangle, let z axis be our axis, x parallel with b and y parallel with c. Now take one small piece A with coordinates x , y x, y and mass m A m_A his moment inertia will be I A = m A r 2 = m A ( x 2 + y 2 ) = I A x + I A y I_A=m_A r^2=m_A (x^2+y^2)=I_Ax+I_Ay

So now we see that I = I x + I y I=I_x+I_y .

To calculate I x I_x and I y I_y we will devide our rectangle into two groups of rods. First parallel to a a with lenght a a and second parallel with b b with lenght b b . And now you get

I x = m a 2 12 I_x=\frac{ma^2}{12} and I y = m b 2 12 I_y=\frac{mb^2}{12}

And finally

I = m ( a 2 + b 2 ) 12 = 25 I=\frac{m(a^2+b^2)}{12}=25

highly overated!!

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