I truly appreciate everone who wrote, it was very interesting. My method of calculating the moment of inertia did divded the body in eight sections. I compared that moment of inertia with the simplified sphere or rod inertia equations. The results were comparable. I believe, as stated by...
I am currently working on a physics project. The idea is a measure rate of rotation of different gymastics flips (i.e tuck, twist, layout, pike). I calculated the moment of inertia for each of the different positions. I then taped a gymnast preforming the different flips on a trapoline. I...