In Chapter 5, we studied the rotation of rigid bodies about an axis of symmetry. For these cases, we have L=Iω, where I is the moment of inertia with respect to t...In Chapter 5, we studied the rotation of rigid bodies about an axis of symmetry. For these cases, we have L=Iω, where I is the moment of inertia with respect to the rotation axis. In this section, we’ll derive the more general form, in which the number I is replaced by a 2-tensor, i.e., a map from a vector space (here R3) into itself, represented by a 3×3 matrix.
