Difference between revisions of "Second moment of area"

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Alternative term: Moment of inertia

The sum of the products of all the elementary areas of a section by the squares of the distances of these areas from an axis through the section.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)