The purpose of this lab is to try to find the moment of inertia of a triangle.
Initially we will solve for the moment of inertia of a triangle symbolically. We will then find the angular acceleration so that the moment of the inertia of the system can be solved thereafter.
When the triangle is placed horizontally, this is the result.
The result of placing the triangle vertically.
Above is the calculations where we used the parallel axis theorem to derive the moment of inertia of the two positions of the triangles.
Our experiment was fairly close with our results. Differences can be due to not taking into account of friction, air resistance, mathematical errors, or rounding.
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