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To measure the moment of inertia of a flywheel
- Essay length: 536 words
- Submitted: 05/03/2008
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To measure the moment of inertia of a flywheel
Name: Zahid Mahmood
Lab ID: M15
Lab Partner: Makanov Renax
Date of conducting the experiment: 11/12/2006
Date Submitted: 10/01/2007
Aim: the moment of inertia of a rigid body is a property essential to the solution of rotational problems involving that body. The purpose of this experiment is to measure the moment of inertia of a flywheel.
Apparatus
* Flywheel
* Mass
* Callipers
* Clamp stand
* Piece of string
* Vernier callipers
* Digital stop-clocks
Figure 2: Arrangement of flywheel
Experimental procedure
For a minimum of 5 values of m:
* Count the number of revolutions, n, completed before the string detaches itself; n is unlikely to be an integer. Using the same string n can be kept the same, throughout the experiment.
* Measure the time t required for the weight to drop; repeat this at least three times for each weight
* Obtain a value for N, the number of revolutions completed after the string detaches itself and until the flywheel stops, for each of
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