MOMENT
OF INERTIA
OF
MASS
DEFINED
205
imately
equal
to the
product
of the area of
the
strip
and the
square
of
the
distance
of its centroid from
the base.
Hence,
the
moment
of inertia
of the
rectangle
is,
=
|X13.3
=
15.96
in.
4
According
to
Art. 92 the exact value
is,
2.
MOMENTS
OF
INERTIA OF BODIES
100. Moment
of
Inertia
of Mass Defined.
In
the
analysis
of
the
motion of a
body,
the
body
is
frequently
regarded
as
a
system
of
particles
and
expressions
are
frequently
met in the
analysis
which involve the mass of a
particle
and its
distance from
a
line or
plane.
The
product
of
the
mass
of a
particle
and
the first
power
of its
distance
from a line or
plane
is called
the first moment
of
the
particle
as discussed in Art. 79 while
the
product
of
the
mass of the
particle
and
the
square
of
its distance
from
the
line
or
plane
is called the second moment of the
mass of the
particle
or more
frequently
the moment
of
inertia
of
the
mass
of the
particle
(or
briefly
the moment of inertia of the
particle)
with
respect
to
the
line or
plane.
The moment of inertia of a
system
of
particles
(mass-system
or
body)
with
respect
to
a line
or
plane
is the
sum
of the
moments of inertia of the
particles
with
respect
to
the
given
line
or
plane. Thus,
if the masses of
the
particles
of a
system
are denoted
by mi, m^,
m^,
. . . and the
distances
of the
particles
from a
given
line are denoted
by r\,
7-2
,
r%
.
. .
,
the
moment of
inertia of the
system may
be
expressed
as
follows
:
-\-m2T2
2
-\-m3T3
2
+
. .
.
If
the
mass
system
constitutes a
continuous
body
the
summation
in
the
above
equation
may
be
replaced
by
a
definite
integral,
and
the
expression
for
the
moment of inertia of the
body
then
becomes,
/=
|
r
2
dM,