Edinburgh Mathematical Notes

Table of Contents - Volume 44 - 1961  

Research Article

Inertia Invariants of a Set of Particles

N. B. Slatera1

a1 The University, Hull

The formal object of this note is the calculation of the principal moments of inertia of a set of particles at their mass centre, in terms of their mutual distances; he calculation brings in some identities which although simple may be in part novel.