Week 10: Determination of principal axes by diagonalizing the inertia
Course Material
- Week 01: General introduction
- Week 02: Projectile motion with air resistance. Applications of the principle of conservation of energy
- Week 03: Centre of mass of a system of particles
- Week 04: Motion of a rigid body, translation and rotation, linear and angular velocity of a rigid body about a fixed axis
- Week 05: Linear momentum, angular momentum and K.E. with respect to the centre of mass
- Week 06: General motion of rigid bodies in space. Angular momentum and moment of inertia. Principal axes and principal moments of inertia
- Week 07: Moments and products of inertia. Parallel and perpendicular axis theorems
- Week 08: Examples and problems
- Week 09: Mid Term exam
- Week 10: Determination of principal axes by diagonalizing the inertia
- Week 11: Equimomental systems
- Week 12: Rotating axes theorems.
- Week 13: Euler’s dynamical equations.
- Week 14: Torque free motion of a symmetrical top
- Week 15: Free rotation of a rigid body with three different principal moments of inertia
- Week 16: Eulerian angles and rigid body motion, Orbital motion
- Week 17: Revision/Presentations
- Week 18: Final term exam
- Chapters 18
- Department Mathematics
- Teacher
Dr. Khalid Mahmood Awan
