Moment of inertia easy-med

Calculate the moment of inertia based on the description below.

Give your answer in SI units and round to 3 significant digits.


The answer is 7.0214466.

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2 solutions

Guy Fox
Sep 21, 2018

The next problem can have massive spokes.

Steven Chase - 2 years, 8 months ago

I learned that Wolfram Mathematica returns the moment of inertia in units of the fifth power of length, which when multiplied by the density gives the SI form of the moment of inertia: kg*meter 2 {}^2 . That fact is present, but not immediately apparent, in Guy Fox's solution. It took me a while to learn how it was present. The integration across z z provides one and the integration across r r provides the other four.

cm = 1 100 \text{cm}=\frac{1}{100}

density = 2700 kg m 3 \text{density}=2700\frac{\text{kg}}{m^3}

wheel = Region [ RegionUnion [ RegionDifference [ Cylinder [ ( 0 0 0 0 0 5 cm ) , 45 cm ] , Cylinder [ ( 0 0 0 0 0 5 cm ) , 30 cm ] ] , RegionDifference [ Cylinder [ ( 0 0 0 0 0 5 cm ) , 12 cm ] , Cylinder [ ( 0 0 0 0 0 5 cm ) , 4 cm ] ] ] ] \text{wheel}=\text{Region}\left[\text{RegionUnion}\left[\text{RegionDifference}\left[\text{Cylinder}\left[\left( \begin{array}{ccc} 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 5\ \text{cm} \\ \end{array} \right),45\ \text{cm}\right],\text{Cylinder}\left[\left( \begin{array}{ccc} 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 5\ \text{cm} \\ \end{array} \right),30\ \text{cm}\right]\right], \\ \text{RegionDifference}\left[\text{Cylinder}\left[\left( \begin{array}{ccc} 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 5\ \text{cm} \\ \end{array} \right),12\ \text{cm}\right],\text{Cylinder}\left[\left( \begin{array}{ccc} 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 5\ \text{cm} \\ \end{array} \right),4\ \text{cm}\right]\right]\right]\right]

inertia = density × ( MomentOfInertia [ wheel , { 0 , 0 , 0 } , { 0 , 0 , 1 } ] m 5 ) 17879967 π 8000000 kg m 2 7.02144662170349 kg m 2 \text{inertia}=\text{density}\times \left(\text{MomentOfInertia}[\text{wheel},\{0,0,0\},\{0,0,1\}]\ \text{m}^5\right) \Rightarrow \frac{17879967\pi}{8000000}\text{kg}\,\text{m}^2 \approx 7.02144662170349\,\text{kg}\,\text{m}^2

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