- 2068 Chaitra · 4 marks
First product of inertia of right-angled triangle
Short answer
By integration of a vertical strip, the product of inertia about the axes along the base and height (at the right-angle corner) is I_xy = b²h²/24. About centroidal axes it becomes -b²h²/72.
Find from the first principle product of inertia for a right angled triangle with base 'b' and height 'h' along XX and YY axes. (base and height are collinear with XX and YY axes respectively).
Take a right-angled triangle with the right-angle corner at the origin, base along the -axis and height along the -axis. The hypotenuse has equation .
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Derivation from first principles
Take a vertical strip of width at distance , of height . Its area is . The product of inertia of the strip about the and axes is obtained by applying the parallel-axis theorem to the strip (its own is zero, as it is symmetrical about its centre line parallel to ):
Hence
(positive, since the triangle lies in the first quadrant). About the centroidal axes, .
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