By wheel you mean tire and rim? Then I could use 0.8MR^2 to approximate the inertia instead of treating it separately as cylindrical shell and solid shell?
Does this approximation apply to all passenger car and truck tires?
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I need to compute the energy to get a truck and trailer from 0 to 60 mph from rest taking into account the mass of truck and trailer and inertia of wheels and rims.
Do I treat the rims and tires as a cylindrical shell or solid cylinder? Once I find the energy of the tires and rims do I just...