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Grade 11Mechanics

Find the moment of Inertia of a half uniform ring of mass M and radius R about its center.I am not getting how to begin this question. Please tell me the way

Profile image of Shashank Raut
9 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
U need to know first to proceed before that the distance b/w the COM amd centre is = 2R/pi
Hnece, from parallel axis theorem,
I = Icom + md^2
We  want 
Icom = I – md^2 => MR^2[1−4/π^2]