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Homework Statement
For my second thread of the day I will give the weirdest problem I've encountered in physics yet.
In the mobile what is the inertia of the giraffe mgir in terms of the inertia mm of the monkey?
Homework Equations
I = md2
The Attempt at a Solution
In the picture, the giraffe and monkey are on their own rod type thing, each 2-d away. So the inertia of both are mm 4 d2 = Im and mgir 4 d2 = Igir. It says to find the inertia of the giraffe in terms of the inertia of the monkey, but I don't really have any equations that relate the two as far as I know (other than the inertia of the whole system, but I don't know what that is equal to and that seems like it would lead me down a fruitless path). Can I even calculate inertias of objects individually? This isn't too clear to me.