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Grade 11Mechanics

How to find inertia about the line of action in a solid cyclinder

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7 Years agoGrade 11
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7 Years ago
Dear student,

A solid cylinder can be considered to be made up of thin discs stacked one over the other with each segment having moment of inertia=\dfrac{1}{2}(dm)R^2

So the total moment of inertia=\dfrac{1}{2}MR^2