Timeline for Physical meaning of the moment of inertia about an axis
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| Sep 14, 2016 at 0:40 | answer | added | John Alexiou | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 20:52 | history | protected | Qmechanic♦ | ||
| Sep 13, 2016 at 20:37 | answer | added | Steeven | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 19:53 | comment | added | docscience | A simpler, nonmathematical meaning is that it is a measure of the distribution of mass about some defined axis. | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 18:33 | comment | added | QuantumBrick | I explained it better in an answer. If it doesn't help tell me and I can enlarge it. | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 18:24 | answer | added | QuantumBrick | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 18:22 | comment | added | Gold | Thanks for the comment @QuantumBrick. Now, how this relates to the actual definition as $I_{\mathbf{n}}=\hat{\mathbf{n}}\cdot I(\hat{\mathbf{n}}),$ that I stated? | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 18:16 | comment | added | QuantumBrick | The moment of inertia is the rotation equivalent of mass: whilst mass measures how hard an object is to move, the moment of inertia measures how hard an object is to rotate. | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 18:03 | history | asked | Gold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |