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    E103 - Moment of Inertia

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    1. The document analyzes experiments on moment of inertia, which is a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotational motion. 2. The experiments aim to determine the moment of inertia of a disk about an axis through its center perpendicular to its plane, and about an axis through its diameter. 3. The results found the moment of inertia is greater when the disk is rotated about its center compared to its diameter, because the mass is distributed further from the axis of rotation when rotated at the center.

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    1. The document analyzes experiments on moment of inertia, which is a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotational motion. 2. The experiments aim to determine the moment of inertia of a disk about an axis through its center perpendicular to its plane, and about an axis through its diameter. 3. The results found the moment of inertia is greater when the disk is rotated about its center compared to its diameter, because the mass is distributed further from the axis of rotation when rotated at the center.

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    1. The document analyzes experiments on moment of inertia, which is a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotational motion. 2. The experiments aim to determine the moment of inertia of a disk about an axis through its center perpendicular to its plane, and about an axis through its diameter. 3. The results found the moment of inertia is greater when the disk is rotated about its center compared to its diameter, because the mass is distributed further from the axis of rotation when rotated at the center.

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    E103 - Moment of Inertia

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    1. The document analyzes experiments on moment of inertia, which is a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotational motion. 2. The experiments aim to determine the moment of inertia of a disk about an axis through its center perpendicular to its plane, and about an axis through its diameter. 3. The results found the moment of inertia is greater when the disk is rotated about its center compared to its diameter, because the mass is distributed further from the axis of rotation when rotated at the center.

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    ANALYSIS

    The third experiment is about Inertia. Moment of inertia is the measure of


    the rotational inertia of rigid body. It is the resistance of a rigid body to any change
    in its rotational motion about a specified axis. It is a scalar quantity where it is the
    rotational equivalent of time. Moment of inertia is the name given to rotational
    inertia, the rotational analog of mass for linear motion. It appears in the
    relationships for the dynamics of rotational motion. The moment of inertia must be
    specified with respect to a chosen axis of rotation. For a point mass the moment of
    inertia is just the mass times the square of perpendicular distance to the rotation
    axis, I = MR2. That point mass relationship becomes the basis for all other
    moments of inertia since any object can be built up from a collection of point
    masses.

    There are two objectives for this experiment. First, to determine the moment
    of inertia of a disk about an axis through its center perpendicular to its plane.
    Second, to determine the moment of inertia of a disk about an axis through its
    center perpendicular to its plane.

    The materials used in this experiment are rotating platform, disk, photogate,
    smart timer, smart pulley, weights, mass hanger, Vernier caliper, and ruler. Below
    is the set up for part B and C of the experiment. See Figure 1 and Figure 2. Our
    group made sure to follow all of the instructions for the proper set up (See Figure
    3).

    The accepted moment of inertia of solid disk is:

    1
    I = M R2
    2
    While the experimental value of moment of inertia is:

    m(g−a) r 2
    I=
    a

    Figure 1. Set up for part B.


    Figure 2. Set up for part C.

    Figure 3. Settings for the smart timer.


    The moment of inertia of the disk greater when it is rotated about the center
    compared to when it is rotated about its diameter is because, the mass distributed
    when the disk is rotated at the center is far from the center of mass or the axis of
    rotation than when it is rotated on its diameter. Because of this, the moment of
    inertia when the inertia is rotated on a center is greater than when it is rotated in the
    diameter.
    CONCLUSION

    The Moment of Inertia of an object is constant, based from the results of the
    experiment. You can change the acceleration of it by changing the force acting on
    it, but it will still not affect the Moment of Inertia.

    For this experiment, the additional weight on the pan which causes rotational
    motion causes the disk to accelerate faster, but based on the result, it is still near
    the actual value of the Moment of Inertia. Even though there is a little percent
    error, this is still accurate because this inaccuracy is caused by some disregarded
    circumstances like, the exactness of the flatness of the surface, the friction of the
    rotating body, and the inaccuracy of the smart timer.

    In conclusion, Moment of inertia is the resistance of an object to change its


    current state. It is dependent on the mass of the object, if the object becomes
    heavier, the greater the external force needed to change the objects current state.
    When it comes to Rotational Moment of Inertia, the orientation of how the object
    rotates becomes a factor because there are some orientation like in the experiment
    where the center is on the diameter, the weight is not, distributed which result to a
    weaker Moment of Inertia.

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