Multi-Segment Moment

Consider a three-segment wire with mass M M and ( x , y ) (x,y) vertices as shown in the figure above. The moment of inertia relative to an axis perpendicular to the x y xy plane and passing through ( 0 , 0 ) (0,0) can be expressed as α M \alpha M .

Enter α \lfloor{\alpha}\rfloor as your answer.

Assume that we neglect units.

Notation : \lfloor \cdot \rfloor denotes the floor function .


The answer is 13.

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Steven Chase
Aug 21, 2016

@Steven Chase after 5-8 years whenever I will launch that software how can I communicate with you.
I don't know your anything like phone number, location.
Maybe at that time Brilliant site will be closed, so what will I do??

Talulah Riley - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Just Brilliant, so let's hope it keeps going

Steven Chase - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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@Steven Chase lets imagine if it gets closed then??
Anything is possible in this world.

Talulah Riley - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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@Talulah Riley Then it will be game over

Steven Chase - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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@Steven Chase @Steven Chase my online maths test is going now, I will reply after 1 hour. Bye

Talulah Riley - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@Steven Chase @Steven Chase hello ,so i am back ,why game over? ,
i will come to SEL and will say i want to interact with Mr.Chase .
this will be ok to you ?

Talulah Riley - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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@Talulah Riley No, don't do that

Steven Chase - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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@Steven Chase @Steven Chase but what is wrong in that?

Talulah Riley - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@Steven Chase @Steven Chase why you want to live so secretly ?

Talulah Riley - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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@Talulah Riley I'll be here on Brilliant. Let's just leave it at that

Steven Chase - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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@Steven Chase @Steven Chase ok .As you wish.
but one thing which i want to ask is why you want to live so secretly ?? i am a very good guy in my social life.

Talulah Riley - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@Steven Chase Do you add any name in your middle like in my name i have 3 word so in your name , is there any middle word exist??

Talulah Riley - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

I initially got this question wrong, but afterwards I obtained a solution. Here it is:

First we denote the point ( 0 , 0 ) (0,0) to be A A , ( 1 , 2 ) (1,2) to be B B , ( 3 , 1 ) (3,1) to be C C and ( 4 , 5 ) (4,5) to be D D . Then, the midpoint of A B AB is given by ( 0.5 , 1 ) (0.5,1) with a distance of 5 \sqrt{5} from A A . The midpoint of B C BC is ( 2 , 1.5 ) (2,1.5) , with a distance of 6.25 \sqrt{6.25} from the origin. The midpoint of C D CD is ( 3.5 , 3 ) (3.5,3) , with a distance of 21.25 \sqrt{21.25} from the origin.

Now, we observe that the mass of segment A B AB , B C BC and C D CD are given by A B A B + B C + C D M B C A B + B C + C D M C D A B + B C + C D M \frac{|AB|}{|AB|+|BC|+|CD|}M\\\frac{|BC|}{|AB|+|BC|+|CD|}M\\\frac{|CD|}{|AB|+|BC|+|CD|}M

We know that the moment of inertia relative to an axis perpendicular to the x y xy plane and passing through A A can be expressed as m r 2 \sum mr^2 , where m m is the mass of each point and r r is the distance of that point to A A . Hence, we have

I = m a b A B 2 + m b c B C 2 + m c d C D 2 = 5 A B A B + B C + C D M + 6.25 B C A B + B C + C D M + 21.25 C D A B + B C + C D M 13.12 M \begin{aligned}I&=m_{ab}|AB|^2+m_{bc}|BC|^2+m_{cd}|CD|^2\\&=5\frac{|AB|}{|AB|+|BC|+|CD|}M+6.25\frac{|BC|}{|AB|+|BC|+|CD|}M+21.25\frac{|CD|}{|AB|+|BC|+|CD|}M\\&\approx13.12M \end{aligned}

So the answer is 13.

Why are we using 5 with m(ab)? The r^2 I found was 1.25.

Priontu Chowdhury - 4 years, 9 months ago

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