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

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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