Some basic shapes that rotate to compute the moment of inertia: solid or hollow sphere, ring, disk, disk with a hole, solid cylinder, hollow cylinder.
Alternative diagrams are in this post. For more related figures, please see the “angular momentum” or “torque” tags.
Edit and compile if you like:
% Author: Izaak Neutelings (January 2021)\documentclass[border=3pt,tikz]{standalone}\usepackage{physics}\usepackage{tikz}\usepackage[outline]{contour} % glow around text\usetikzlibrary{calc}\usetikzlibrary{angles,quotes} % for pic\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}\usetikzlibrary{patterns}\usetikzlibrary{bending} % for arrow head angle\tikzset{>=latex} % for LaTeX arrow head\contourlength{0.8pt}\colorlet{xcol}{blue!70!black}\colorlet{myred}{red!65!black}\tikzstyle{rvec}=[->,xcol,very thick,line cap=round]\tikzstyle{mass line}=[line width=0.5,draw=red!30!black]\tikzstyle{myarr}=[-{Latex[length=3,width=2]},blue!40!black]\tikzstyle{myarr2}=[{Latex[length=3,width=2]}-{Latex[length=3,width=2]},blue!40!black]\tikzstyle{mass}=[mass line, %rounded corners=1,top color=red!40!black!30,bottom color=red!40!black!10,shading angle=30]\tikzstyle{middle mass}=[mass line,top color=red!40!black!50,bottom color=red!40!black!50,middle color=red!40!black!10,shading angle=30]\def\r{0.05} % pulley small radius\tikzset{pics/rotarr/.style={code={\draw[white,line width=0.8] ({#1*cos(210)},0) arc(-210:35:{#1} and {0.35*#1});\draw[-{>[flex'=1]}] ({#1*cos(210)},0) coordinate (W1) arc(-210:35:{#1} and {0.35*#1})node[midway] (W2) {} --++ (150:0.1) coordinate (W3);}},pics/rotarr/.default=0.3,}\begin{document}\LARGE% MOMENT OF INERTIA - masses on rods\def\ang{-20} % angle of whole picture
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