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[SOLVED] Moment of Inertia Problem
A compound disk of outside diameter 140.0cm is made up of a uniform solid disk of radius 50.0cm and area density of 3.00 g/cm^2 surrounded by a concentric ring of inner radius 50.0cm, outer radius 70.0cm, and area density 2.00 g/cm^2. Find the moment of inertia of this object about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the object and passing through its center.
Moment of inertia of a solid cylinder: I=1/2MR^2
Moment of inertia of a thin-walled hollow cylinder: I=MR^2
Well I don't really know how this thing looks. What I did was calculate the mass of the inner circle using the area density and then used the moment of inertia equation for a solid cylinder. Then I calculated the mass of the concentric ring using the given area density and calculated the area of this ring by subtracting the area solid disk from the concentric ring. Again, I used the moment of inertia of a thin-walled hollow cylinder for this part. The last part is finding the moment of inertia of the outer disc with the diameter of 140.0cm. There's no area density given for this outer disc so I don't know how to calculate its moment of inertia. Then again I could be approaching this whole problem wrong. Any help is appreciated!
Homework Statement
A compound disk of outside diameter 140.0cm is made up of a uniform solid disk of radius 50.0cm and area density of 3.00 g/cm^2 surrounded by a concentric ring of inner radius 50.0cm, outer radius 70.0cm, and area density 2.00 g/cm^2. Find the moment of inertia of this object about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the object and passing through its center.
Homework Equations
Moment of inertia of a solid cylinder: I=1/2MR^2
Moment of inertia of a thin-walled hollow cylinder: I=MR^2
The Attempt at a Solution
Well I don't really know how this thing looks. What I did was calculate the mass of the inner circle using the area density and then used the moment of inertia equation for a solid cylinder. Then I calculated the mass of the concentric ring using the given area density and calculated the area of this ring by subtracting the area solid disk from the concentric ring. Again, I used the moment of inertia of a thin-walled hollow cylinder for this part. The last part is finding the moment of inertia of the outer disc with the diameter of 140.0cm. There's no area density given for this outer disc so I don't know how to calculate its moment of inertia. Then again I could be approaching this whole problem wrong. Any help is appreciated!