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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ia Paper 3 9C c Solution by
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For , the inertia component is . Reflecting just one of these coordinates preserves the cylinder and its uniform density but changes the integrand's sign. Odd-integrand cancellation by reflection therefore makes every off-diagonal entry zero. Rotations about the axis also give .
Using cylindrical coordinates , , , with , the required integrals areThus the inertia tensor isThe mass is , so these entries are also , respectively.
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