Analysis Of The Moment Of Inertia Of A Liquid In A Cylinder

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Moment of Inertia of a Liquid in a Cylinder Exploration: Intro One night, out babysitting, I found myself playing with a toy garage, making little cars go down the ramp. You place the little car at the top floor of the toy garage and watch it go down. Some cars zoom down, others got stuck, others toppled over and flew off the track. This made me think of those heavy trucks filled with liquid and how they behave in a crash. Bulk liquid transport trucks when that are only partially filled are especially dangerous as the liquid can move around from side to side inside the liquid container and make the ‘load’ unsafe in a crash situation and cause the truck to roll over. I wondered if the viscosity of the load increased or decreased this danger? Moreover, would it …show more content…

However, with a variation of liquids with various viscosities and the mixed phase of liquid and gas -, the content of the cylinder may not move with the cylinder at the same rate. With the can containing a mixed phase of liquid/gas, the moment of inertia I is therefore not fixed. The liquid in the can move around and since I=∫▒r2dm Depending on distance I will change. In addition, the viscosity of the liquid will change the behavior of the contents even further because you will not only have a mixed phase of liquid/gas but also different viscosities in other words different measures of the fluid’s resistance. Viscous forces in a fluid are proportional to the rate at which the fluid velocity changes in space. The viscosity thus changes the liquids ease of moving around inside the cylinder. The higher the viscosity, the slower are the fluctuations in

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