
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R
Assertion (A) : A person standing on a rotating platform suddenly stretched his arms. The platform slows down.
Reason (R) : This happens as angular momentum is conserved.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
Moment of inertia is defined as the quantity expressed by the body resisting angular acceleration which is the sum of the product of the mass of every particle with its square of a distance from the axis of rotation.
In general form, the moment of inertia can be expressed as,
I = m × r²
Where,
I = Moment of inertia.
m = sum of the product of the mass.
r = distance from the axis of the rotation.
M¹ L² T° is the dimensional formula of the moment of inertia.
The equation for moment of inertia is given by,
I = I = ∑mi ri²
To calculate the moment of inertia, we use two important theorems-