Paper 2, Section II, E

Classical Dynamics
Part II, 2017

Show that an object's inertia tensor about a point displaced from the centre of mass by a vector c\mathbf{c} is given by

(Ic)ab=(I0)ab+M(c2δabcacb),\left(I_{\mathbf{c}}\right)_{a b}=\left(I_{0}\right)_{a b}+M\left(|\mathbf{c}|^{2} \delta_{a b}-c_{a} c_{b}\right),

where MM is the total mass of the object, and (I0)ab\left(I_{0}\right)_{a b} is the inertia tensor about the centre of mass.

Find the inertia tensor of a cube of uniform density, with edge of length LL, about one of its vertices.