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Re: The Olympics (picking a nit)



Oops -- you are right. Thanks.

Joel Rauber wrote:

Note from a picker of nits:

As I recall, symmetry of I_ij, reduces the independent components from nine
to six.

Joel Rauber
Joel_Rauber@sdstate.edu


Note for nit-picking expert physicists: there is a constraint on the
components of I so that there are only 8 independent components. I
haven't included enough detail for the constraint to make a difference
in the discussion above.


--
Maurice Barnhill (mvb@udel.edu)
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716