Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany | Moment of Inertia..Student motion investigation @YeanyScience | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Here's is a a simple student investigation of moment of inertia for younger students. It is a challenge to determine how the position of mass affects angular acceleration of a cylinder rolling down a ramp. The challenge is to try and design a "wheel and axle" that will have the quickest movement down the table or the slowest. Materials needed are cardboard, engines, pencils tape or glue. To speed things along, I sometimes used a circle cutter to precut some wheels out of cardboard.
There are a variety of manufacturers for good circle cutters and can be found online by doing a search for circle cutters. I am not receiving any paid promotion for the particular brand that I show in this video, it is a NT Cutter Heavy-Duty Circle Cutter
Here's is a a simple student investigation of moment of inertia for younger students. It is a challenge to determine how the position of mass affects angular acceleration of a cylinder rolling down a ramp. The challenge is to try and design a "wheel and axle" that will have the quickest movement down the table or the slowest. Materials needed are cardboard, engines, pencils tape or glue. To speed things along, I sometimes used a circle cutter to precut some wheels out of cardboard.
There are a variety of manufacturers for good circle cutters and can be found online by doing a search for circle cutters. I am not receiving any paid promotion for the particular brand that I show in this video, it is a NT Cutter Heavy-Duty Circle Cutter
