Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Angular Acceleration, Spinning Wheel, Angular Velocity
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Inertia is a concept relating to newtons laws. Inertia is resistance to the state of movement. Difficult to get something moving or getting it to stop. Moment of inertia is different: relates to how hard it is to get something to move or stop but its related to an object spinning about an axis and you can assign a number to it. One is a concept and one you can define by an equation and putting numbers to it. Moment of inertia relates to angular acceleration. Amount of torque in a system is proportional too inertia, moment of inertia, or acceleration. Angular acceleration with increase if amount of torque applied to system will increase as well. If you increase moment of inertia, will decrease angular acceleration- angular acceleration more difficult to chive if moment of inertia goes up. How difficult to spin something around an axis related to: Cog would be where mass would lie.