Question: Consider a flywheel whose mass M is distributed almost equally between a heavy, ring-like rim of radius R and a concentric disk-like feature of radius

Consider a flywheel whose mass M is distributed almost equally between a heavy, ring-like rim of radius R and a concentric disk-like feature of radius R/2. Other parts of the flywheel, such as spokes, etc, have negligible mass. The best approximation for a, if the moment of inertia of the fly wheel about its axis of rotation is expressed as alpha*MR^2

What is value of alpha

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