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Engineering Mechancis: Statics and Dynamics

by Anthony Bedford and Wallace Fowler
Fourth Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddele River, NJ 2005

Authors' Homepages: Anthony Bedford Wallace Fowler

Chapter 8: Moments of Inertia

"Quantities called moments of inertia arise repeatedly in analyses of engineering problems. Moments of inertia of area are used in the study of distribute forces and in calculating deflections of beams. The moment exerted by the pressure on a submerged flat plate can be expressed in terms of the moments of inertia of the plate's area. In dynamics, mass moments of inertia are used in calculating the rotational motions of objects. We show how to calculate the moments of inertia of simple areas and objects and then sue results called parallel-axis theorems to calculate moments of inertia of more complex areas and objects."

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