products of inertia

  • 1inertia selling — ➔ selling * * * inertia selling UK US noun [U] UK MARKETING ► the illegal method of supplying products or services to people who have not ordered them and then demanding payment: »The Office of Fair Trading has acted to prevent inertia selling by …

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  • 2inertia, moment of — Quantitative measure of the rotational inertia of a body. As a rotating body spins about an external or internal axis (either fixed or unfixed), it opposes any change in the body s speed of rotation that may be caused by a torque. It is defined… …

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  • 3Moment of inertia — This article is about the moment of inertia of a rotating object, also termed the mass moment of inertia. For the moment of inertia dealing with the bending of a beam, also termed the area moment of inertia, see second moment of area. In… …

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  • 4Polar moment of inertia — is a quantity used to predict an object s ability to resist torsion, in objects (or segments of objects) with an invariant circular cross section and no significant warping or out of plane deformation.Ugural AC, Fenster SK. Advanced Strength and… …

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  • 5Jemba Inertia Notes System — The Jemba Inertia Notes System is a computer software program used in rally racing that automatically prints out stage notes for competitors to use. The purpose of the system is to allow organizers to create a consistent set of pace notes for all …

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  • 6momentof inertia — moment of inertia n. pl. moments of inertia A measure of a body s resistance to angular acceleration, equal to: a. The product of the mass of a particle and the square of its distance from a reference. b. The sum of the products of each mass… …

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  • 7Monadnock Lifetime Products — Monadnock Lifetime Products, Inc. Type Private Industry Defensive weapons Founded Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, USA (1958) Headquarters Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, USA Prod …

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  • 8moment of inertia — Date: 1830 a measure of the resistance of a body to angular acceleration about a given axis that is equal to the sum of the products of each element of mass in the body and the square of the element s distance from the axis …

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  • 9moment of inertia — Physics. the sum of the products of the mass and the square of the perpendicular distance to the axis of rotation of each particle in a body rotating about an axis. [1820 30] * * * …

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  • 10moment of inertia — mo′ment of iner′tia n. phs the sum of the products of the mass and the square of the perpendicular distance to the axis of rotation of each particle in a body rotating about an axis • Etymology: 1820–30 …

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