https://gdpark.blog/tags/inertia-tensor/Recent content in Inertia Tensor on gdpark.blogHugoenThu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-21-three-dimensional-motion-of-a-rigid-body/Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-21-three-dimensional-motion-of-a-rigid-body/We level up from flat pancakes to sweet potatoes — spinning a 3D rigid body on an arbitrary axis and cooking up the full inertia tensor from direction cosines.https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-23-principal-axes-of-a-rigid-body/Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-23-principal-axes-of-a-rigid-body/A fun intro to principal axes of a rigid body — why they matter, how products of inertia vanish, and all the notation conventions that come with them.https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-24-euler-s-equations-of-motion-for-a-rigid-body/Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-24-euler-s-equations-of-motion-for-a-rigid-body/We finally dig into full-on 3D rigid body rotation — inertial frames, rotating frames, and how Euler’s equations of motion fall out of it all. lol.