Why can't moment of Inertia be never greater than MR2

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The moment of inertia for uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes, such as hollow cylinders, solid cylinders, solid spheres, hollow spheres, discs, and rings, cannot exceed MR², where M is mass and R is the radius of the object. This is derived from the integral definition of moment of inertia, which states that the moment of inertia is equal to the integral of the mass distribution multiplied by the square of the distance from the axis of rotation. The mean value theorem confirms that the average radius squared multiplied by mass will always be less than or equal to the maximum radius squared multiplied by mass.

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Why can't moment of Inertia be never greater than MR2 for uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes?
 
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andyrk said:
Why can't moment of Inertia be never greater than MR2 for uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes?

It's not clear what "R" stands for here. For example, a cube is a simple geometrical shape. What would R be for a cube?
 
TSny said:
It's not clear what "R" stands for here. For example, a cube is a simple geometrical shape. What would R be for a cube?

Apologies. My question was for a condition of friction in Accelerated Pure Rolling of objects like hollow cylinder, solid cylinder, solid sphere, hollow sphere, disc or a ring. So 'R' corresponds to the radius of these objects and 'M' is their mass.
 
The moment of inertia is defined to be ## \int_0^R \rho(r) r^2 dV ##. According to the mean value theorem, that is equal to ## \bar{R}^2 \int_0^R \rho(r) dV = \bar{R}^2 M \le R^2 M ##, where ## 0 \le \bar{R} \le R ##.

Physically, you could think of transporting every bit of mass of an object to its boundary - what would happen with its moment of inertia?
 
I think it grows up, but i don´t understand what´s the concerning
 
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Physically, you could think of transporting every bit of mass of an object to its boundary - what would happen with its moment of inertia?

I think it grows up, but i don´t understand what´s the concerning
 

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