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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2011 H 1 Solution by
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The inertia tensor about the centroid has entries . Reflection symmetry makes every off-diagonal entry zero. Under , , , the ellipsoid becomes the unit ball. Its three coordinate second moments are equal, andUsing the stated mass gives , the same for , and . ThereforeFor the parallel coordinate axes based at , the parallel axis theorem in tensor form is , where . Thus
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