Consider a cube of mass m and side a. (a) Show that the ellipsoid of inertia at

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Consider a cube of mass m and side a.
(a) Show that the ellipsoid of inertia at the center of the cube is a sphere, and use this property to determine the mass moment of inertia of the cube with respect to one of its diagonals.
(b) Show that the ellipsoid of inertia at one of the corners of the cube is an ellipsoid of revolution, and determine the principal mass moments of inertia of the cube at that point.
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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