For the inertia tensor of a uniform cube, reflection symmetry makes every off-diagonal element of the central inertia tensor vanish. Permutation of the three axes makes its diagonal elements equal. Since and the mean of each squared coordinate in the cube is ,Every central axis is therefore a principal axis, including the body diagonal. The angular momentum is parallel to the angular velocity, and its magnitude is
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