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 _______ 101 kg m2.
Numerical answer type. Work it out, then open the answer.
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Answer: 8
- Each side: , , at distance from the centre.
- One side:
- Hexagon:
- So the answer is , i.e. .