Consider a partial sphere, defined as follows:
x = R cos θ sin ϕ y = R sin θ sin ϕ z = R cos ϕ 0 ≤ θ ≤ 2 π 0 ≤ ϕ ≤ α
The mass of the partial sphere, M , is uniformly distributed over the surface area. The object's moment of inertia with respect to the z -axis is:
I z = B A M R 2 ( E − F cos α C + D cos α ) sin G ( H α )
If ( A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H ) are positive integers, with ( A , B ) coprime and ( C , E ) coprime, determine ( A + B + C + D + E + F + G + H ) .
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I agreed with everything but the power on the sin. I ended up with the fourth power
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The mass of the shell is M = ∫ 0 α 2 π ( R sin ϕ ) ρ × R d ϕ = 2 π R 2 ρ ∫ 0 α sin ϕ d ϕ = 2 π R 2 ρ ( 1 − cos α ) and the moment of inertia is I = ∫ 0 α 2 π ( R sin ϕ ) ρ × ( R sin ϕ ) 2 × R d ϕ = 2 π R 4 ρ ∫ 0 α sin 3 ϕ d ϕ = 2 π R 4 ρ ∫ 0 α sin ϕ ( 1 − cos 2 ϕ ) d ϕ = 2 π R 4 ρ [ − cos ϕ + 3 1 cos 3 ϕ ] 0 α = 2 π R 4 ρ ( 3 2 + cos α − 3 1 cos 3 α ) = 3 2 π R 4 ρ ( 2 + 3 cos α − cos 3 α ) = 3 2 π R 4 ρ ( 1 − cos α ) 2 ( 2 + cos α ) = 3 8 π R 4 ρ ( 2 + cos α ) sin 2 2 1 α where ρ is the surface mass density. This makes the moment of inertia I = 3 4 M R 2 1 − cos α 2 + cos α sin 4 2 α and so the answer is 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 2 = 1 8 .
The answer is in a slightly odd form, since a factor of 1 − cos α can be cancelled, so that I = 3 1 M R 2 ( 1 − cos α ) ( 2 + cos α ) = 3 2 M R 2 ( 2 + cos α ) sin 2 2 α