For a point-like mass, the moment of inertia about some axis is given by mr2, where r is the distance to the axis, and m is the mass. For an extended body, the moment of inertia is just the sum of all the small pieces of mass multiplied by the square of their distances from the axis in question.
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Best Answer: Should Al Franken be seated in the still contested Minnesota election, there will be 60 Democratic US Senators. This also includes Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania who recently switched from Republican to Democrat. In the US House of Representatives, there are 255 Democrats, 178 Republicans with 2 vacancies. There will be a special election on July 14th in the 32nd Congressional District in California to elect a successor to Hilda Solis, who stepped down to become US Secretary of Labor.