Assertion: moment | /r/CapableOf | play same role
Facets:
value: in rotational motion
type: MANNER
value: in rotational dynamics as mass
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The moment of inertia plays much the same role in rotational dynamics as mass does in linear dynamics, describing the relationship between angular momentum and angular velocity, torque and angular acceleration, and several other quantities.
text: (338) and (340) suggests that moment of inertia plays the same role in rotational motion that mass plays in translational motion.