The Tumbling Tetrahedron

DOI10.2307/2695678zbMATH Open1078.70009OpenAlexW4243343835MaRDI QIDQ3146540FDOQ3146540

Authors: Andrew Simoson 

Publication date: 12 September 2002

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2695678

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvectortetrahedronsolidrotational inertia

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free motion of a rigid body (70E15) Motion of a rigid body with a fixed point (70E17) Motion of a rigid body in contact with a solid surface (70E18)

Cited In (2)

• The Continuous Mixing Polyhedron
• Explicit exact formulas for the 3-D tetrahedron inertia tensor in terms of its vertex coordinates

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