The moment of inertia of a planar square about a planar axis parallel to one side is 10kgm2. What is the moment of inertia about a diagonal?
The moment of inertia of a planar square about a planar axis parallel to one side is 10kgm2. What is the moment of inertia about a diagonal? Correct Answer 10kgm2
Using perpendicular axis theorem we can say that sum of moment of inertia about two perpendicular axes will be the same as sum of moment of inertia about other 2 perpendicular axes. Let I1 be the moment of inertia about a diagonal, we can say: I1 + I1= 10 + 10 = 20kgm2 Or I1 =10kgm2.