rotational inertia

A body's resistance to a change in its state of angular motion. It is also called the moment of inertia.

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	The angular momentum of a flywheel having a rotational inertia of 0.150 kgm2 about its central axis decreases from 2.60 to 0.200 kgm2s in 2.20 s?
	If a trapeze artist rotates twice each second while sailing through the air and contracts to reduce her rotational inertia to three-fourths how many rotations per second will result?
	The shaft connecting a turbine and an electric generator in a power plant is a solid cylinder of mass 6000 and diameter 88. Find its rotational inertia?

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