Thursday, 3 December 2015

classical mechanics - what is the physical meaning of area moment of inertia?


In our applied mechanics class, we studied about area moment of inertia. Our teacher only explained the mathematical relation of this term that is product of area and square of the perpendicular distance from the axis. But I cannot understand the physical meaning. Help me out.




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