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Moment of Inertia

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About these materials

MIT's own material for this topic, in MIT's order: Lesson 29: Moment of Inertia [29.1-29.6].

Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Order: the items appear in the order MIT's own session page lists them; the sessions follow MIT's sequence. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

29.1 Kinetic Energy of Rotation

MIT 8.01SC · Week 10: Rotational Motion · This session on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

  1. 29.1 Kinetic Energy of RotationLecture video · transcript Watch

29.2 Moment of Inertia of a Rod

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  1. 29.2 Moment of Inertia of a RodLecture video · transcript Watch

29.3 Moment of Inertia of a Disc

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  1. 29.3 Moment of Inertia of a DiscLecture video · transcript Watch

29.4 Parallel Axis Theorem

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  1. 29.4 Parallel Axis TheoremLecture video · transcript Watch

29.5 Moment of Inertia of a Sphere

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  1. 29.5 Moment of Inertia of a SphereLecture video · transcript Watch

29.6 Derivation of the Parallel Axis Theorem

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  1. 29.6 Derivation of the Parallel Axis TheoremLecture video · transcript Watch

MIT's problem set

Problem Set 10

MIT places Problem Set 10 at the end of Week 10: Rotational Motion; it covers the whole part, not only this topic. Problem Set 10 on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

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Where this sits in MIT 8.01SC

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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic, 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2016 · Open the original course on OCW ↗

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