Variation in Density!

Variation of density of solid sphere of radius R R with r 5 r^5 is shown in the diagram, where r r is the distance from center of the sphere. Moment of inertia of sphere about its symmetric axis is:

4 3 π ρ 0 R 5 \frac{4}{3} \pi \rho_0 R^5 4 15 π ρ 0 R 5 \frac{4}{15} \pi \rho_0 R^5 2 5 π ρ 0 R 5 \frac{2}{5} \pi \rho_0 R^5 1 2 π ρ 0 R 5 \frac{1}{2} \pi \rho_0 R^5 None of These

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1 solution

Aryaman Maithani
Jul 6, 2018

As the density is having spherical symmetry, let us take an element as an infinitesimally thin hollow sphere concentric with the main sphere with radius r r and thickness d r dr .

d I = 2 3 r 2 d m ( I hollow sphere = 2 3 M R 2 ) \therefore dI = \dfrac{2}{3}r^2dm \hspace{3 cm} \Bigg(\because I_{\text{hollow sphere}} = \dfrac{2}{3}MR^2\Bigg)

For the element, d m = ρ d V = ρ 4 π r 2 d r dm = \rho \cdot dV = \rho \cdot 4\pi r^2dr

d I = 2 3 r 2 ρ 4 π r 2 d r \therefore dI = \dfrac{2}{3}r^2\cdot\rho \cdot 4\pi r^2dr

d I = 8 π 3 ρ r 4 d r \implies dI = \dfrac{8\pi}{3} \rho r^4 dr

I = 8 π 3 5 0 R ρ 5 r 4 d r \implies I = \dfrac{8\pi}{3\cdot 5} \displaystyle\int_{0}^{R} \rho\cdot 5r^4 dr

I = 8 π 3 5 0 R ρ d ( r 5 ) \implies I = \dfrac{8\pi}{3\cdot 5} \displaystyle\int_{0}^{R} \rho\cdot d(r^5)

The above integral is simply the area under the graph of ρ \rho vs r 5 r^5 which can be easily calculated from the above graph as 1 2 ρ R 5 \frac{1}{2}\cdot\rho\cdot R^5

I = 4 15 π ρ 0 R 5 \therefore I = \boxed{ \dfrac{4}{15}\pi \rho_0 R^5 }

In the case of this question, the calculations were greatly simplified as the integral turns out to simply be the area under the curve. Had this not been the case, a more general approach would be calculate ρ \rho as a function of r r and then integrate.

Aryaman Maithani - 2 years, 11 months ago

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