It should be stressed that the moment of inertia depends, in general, not just on the shape and mass distribution of the object, but also on the axis of rotation (a table giving the moments of inertia...It should be stressed that the moment of inertia depends, in general, not just on the shape and mass distribution of the object, but also on the axis of rotation (a table giving the moments of inertia of a number of different shapes is given in Table 6.1.1).