A pendulum is made of a uniform slender rod (4 kg, 1 m long) pivoted at its top end O, with a solid sphere of mass 5 kg and radius 0.25 m fixed to its lower end. The centre of the sphere is 1.25 m below O. Find the mass moment of inertia IO of the pendulum about O.
Rigid-body rotation worksheet with answers
A pendulum is made of a uniform slender rod (2 kg, 0.4 m long) pivoted at its top end O, with a solid sphere of mass 2.5 kg and radius 0.25 m fixed to its lower end. The centre of the sphere is 0.65 m below O. Find the mass moment of inertia IO of the pendulum about O.
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Answer key
- 1. IO = 9.271 kg·m²
- 2. IO = 1.225 kg·m²
- 3. T = 463.1 N·m
- 4. α = 11.32 rad/s²
- 5. μs = 0.2001
- 6. t = 2.654 s
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