https://gdpark.blog/tags/rotational-dynamics/Recent content in Rotational Dynamics on gdpark.blogHugoenWed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-22-the-inertia-tensor/Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-22-the-inertia-tensor/A casual, honest walkthrough of finally grokking the moment of inertia tensor — what tensors actually are, why they’re ‘absolute’, and how the matrix form works.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.