As an intern at an engineering firm, you are asked to measure the moment of inertia of a large wheel for rotation about an axis perpendicular to the wheel at its center. You measure the diameter of the wheel to be 0.320 m . Then you mount the wheel on frictionless bearings on a horizontal frictionless axle at the center of the wheel. You wrap a light rope around the wheel and hang an 8.20-kg block of wood from the free end of the rope, as in (Figure 1). You release the system from rest and find that the block descends 12.0 m in 4.00 s.
What is the moment of inertia of the wheel for this axis?
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