Area Moment of Inertia of a Disk about a Centroidal Axis
The second moment of area, also known as the moment of inertia of a plane area, area moment of inertia or second area moment, is a geometrical property of an area that reflects how its points are distributed with regard to an arbitrary axis.
The second moment of area for a disk equals the radius to the fourth power multiplied by \[Pi] divided by 4.
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