A principal axis is an eigenvector direction of the inertia tensor. Choosing three orthogonal principal axes diagonalizes the inertia tensor.
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- Angular impulse
- Degeneracy of principal moments of inertia
- Gyroscope direction reference
- Inertia tensor of a uniform cube
- Inertia tensor of paired point masses
- Intermediate axis theorem
- Linear stability of principal-axis rotation
- Normalized intermediate-axis model
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