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Example with Coupled Rotations

Now let the mass $ m$ be located at $ \underline{x}=[1,1,0]^T$ so that

\begin{eqnarray*} \mathbf{I}&=& m \left(\left\Vert\,\underline{x}\,\right\Vert^2\mathbf{E}-\underline{x}\underline{x}^T\right) \eqsp m\left(2\mathbf{E}-\left[\begin{array}{ccc} 1 & 1 & 0\\ [2pt] 1 & 1 & 0\\ [2pt] 0 & 0 & 0 \end{array}\right]\right)\\ [5pt] &=& m\left[\begin{array}{rrr} 1 & -1 & 0\\ [2pt] -1 & 1 & 0\\ [2pt] 0 & 0 & 2 \end{array}\right]. \end{eqnarray*}

We expect $ \underline{\omega}=[1,1,0]$ to yield zero for the moment of inertia, and sure enough $ \underline{\tilde{\omega}}^T\mathbf{I}\,\underline{\tilde{\omega}}=0$ . Similarly, the vector angular momentum is zero, since $ \mathbf{I}\,\underline{\omega}=\underline{0}$ .

For $ \underline{\omega}=[1,0,0]^T$ , the result is

\begin{displaymath} \mathbf{I}\eqsp \begin{array}{r}\left[\begin{array}{ccc} 1 & 0 & 0\end{array}\right]\\ [2pt]{}\\ [2pt]{}\end{array}\left[\begin{array}{rrr} 1 & -1 & 0\\ [2pt] -1 & 1 & 0\\ [2pt] 0 & 0 & 2 \end{array}\right] \left[\begin{array}{c} 1 \\ [2pt] 0 \\ [2pt] 0\end{array}\right]m = m, \end{displaymath}

which makes sense because the distance from the axis $ \underline{e}_1$ to $ \underline {x}$ is one. The same result is obtained for rotation about $ \underline{\omega}=\underline{e}_2$ . For $ \underline{\omega}=\underline{e}_3$ , however, the result is $ I=2m = m \vert\vert\,\underline{x}\,\vert\vert ^2$ , as expect.

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