As you can read here, the moment of inertia of an object with density :
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This integral can be worked out for a hollow cylinder rotating around its symmetry axis:
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after integration:
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(23) |
If we would want to compare 2 cylinders having the same mass, but with another inner and outer radius, we would have to write as a function of the mass :
The moment of inertia can also be written as a function of mass instead of density: