An experimental car is designed to work by accumulating energy in a flywheel' shaped as a uniform solid disc. To make the car move, the flywheel is "charged" by attaching it to an external machine able to exert a torque on the wheel of t = flywheel is accelerated and accumulates rotational kinetic energy. The friction of the flywheel with its axle bearings is negligible, and it has a radius R = 1.3 m and a mass m = 631.5 kg. 1000 Nm, so that the %3D a) Find the moment of inertia of the flywheel. (you can assume it is a uniform disk.)

An experimental car is designed to work by accumulating energy in a flywheel' shaped as a uniform solid disc. To make the car move, the flywheel is "charged" by attaching it to an external machine able to exert a torque on the wheel of t = flywheel is accelerated and accumulates rotational kinetic energy. The friction of the flywheel with its axle bearings is negligible, and it has a radius R = 1.3 m and a mass m = 631.5 kg. 1000 Nm, so that the %3D a) Find the moment of inertia of the flywheel. (you can assume it is a uniform disk.)

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter8: Rotational Equilibrium And Dynamics

Section8.5: Rotational Kinetic Energy

Problem 8.4QQ: Two spheres, one hollow and one solid, are rotating with the same angular speed around an axis...

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