Heavy Metal Drums
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Picture a flywheel, 10 inches in diameter and 1/2 inch thick. Also picture a shaft, 1 inch in diameter, and 50 inches long. Both will have the same mass, but the flywheel will have 100 times more rotational inertia than the shaft, purely due to the location of the mass, farther away from the axis of rotation. View Related Article
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