The moment of inertia of a body is a measurement of:

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  1. its resistance against translation
  2. its resistance against shear
  3. its resistance against linear deformation
  4. its resistance against rotation

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Option 4 : its resistance against rotation
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Moment of inertia (MOI) in physics, quantitative measure of the rotational inertia of a body i.e., the opposition that the body exhibits to having its speed of rotation about an axis altered by the application of a torque (turning force). The axis may be internal or external and may or may not be fixed.

  • For point mass Moment of inertia is simply the mass times the square of the perpendicular distance to the axis of rotation.

⇒ I = m × r2

where I is the Moment of Inertia, m is point mass, r is the perpendicular distance from the axis of rotation.

  • For a rigid body system, the moment of inertia is the sum of the moments of inertia of all its particles taken about the same axis.

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⇒ I = Σ miri2

where is the Moment of Inertia, m is point mass, and r is the perpendicular distance from the axis of rotation.

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