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Q138JEE Main 2021 · 24 FEB · SHIFT 2Medium

Moment of Inertia & Radius of Gyration

A uniform thin bar of mass 6 kg and length 2.4 meter is bent to make an equilateral hexagon. The moment of inertia about an axis passing through the centre of mass and perpendicular to the plane of hexagon is _______ ×\times 10−-1 kg m2.

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Answer: 8

  1. Each side: m=1 kgm = 1\text{ kg}, a=0.4 ma = 0.4\text{ m}, at distance 3a2\frac{\sqrt{3}a}{2} from the centre.
  2. One side: ma212+m3a24=56ma2\frac{ma^2}{12} + m\frac{3a^2}{4} = \frac{5}{6}ma^2
  3. Hexagon: I=6×56ma2=5ma2=5×1×0.16=0.8 kg m2I = 6 \times \frac{5}{6}ma^2 = 5ma^2 = 5 \times 1 \times 0.16 = 0.8\text{ kg m}^2
  4. So the answer is 8×10−1 kg m28 \times 10^{-1}\text{ kg m}^2, i.e. 88.
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