Find the moment inertia of a thin rectangle with sides
and mass
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 where is the lenght of the rod.
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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 and mass 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
So now we see that I = I x + I y .
To calculate I x and I y we will devide our rectangle into two groups of rods. First parallel to a with lenght a and second parallel with b with lenght b . And now you get
I x = 1 2 m a 2 and I y = 1 2 m b 2
And finally
I = 1 2 m ( a 2 + b 2 ) = 2 5