Moments of inertia for solids of revolution and variational methods

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/2/001zbMATH Open1103.70004arXivphysics/0507172OpenAlexW2081802867MaRDI QIDQ5289838FDOQ5289838

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Publication date: 19 April 2006

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present some formulae for the moments of inertia of homogeneous solids of revolution in terms of the functions that generate the solids. The development of these expressions exploits the cylindrical symmetry of these objects, and avoids the explicit use of multiple integration, providing an easy and pedagogical approach. The explicit use of the functions that generate the solid gives the possibility of writing the moment of inertia as a functional, which in turn allows us to utilize the calculus of variations to obtain a new insight into some properties of this fundamental quantity. In particular, minimization of moments of inertia under certain restrictions is possible by using variational methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507172

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zbMATH Keywords

minimization of functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Motion of the gyroscope (70E05)

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