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      04-16-2008, 10:54 PM   #8
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I(rotational inertia)=Sum(Mass*Radius^2)

so if the additional mass were distributed evenly around the radius, inertia would increase linearly.

But being a wheel, most of the mass is distributed at the max radius, so inertia would increase somewhat quadratically.
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