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Inertia? Help! Thanks...they're will be a best answer!?
Can someone explain to me the difference between a moment of inertia, area moment of inertia, and mass moment of inertia?
Thanks a slug
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- Andrew SmithLv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
A MOMENT is found by a weighted sum.
We can have a moment ( used in torque ) of sum F * x ( we have different forces at different distances x)
And a moment of inertia of sum m * x^2 ( we have different masses at different distances x)
the "area moment of inertia" is a badly used term as it has nothing to do with inertia at all.
But it is the sum of elements of area * x^2 ( we have different pieces of area at different distances x from some origin )
Your "mass moment of inertia" is the moment of inertia as shown above.
is sum m * x^2