correct on both of your comments, Ambitwistor
I will look into your suggestions as soon as I have time to get back to this. (School is busy right now)
enigma,
The satellite isn't built yet - still on the design board. In the future, we will find its inertial properties with a rigid...
Thanks for the reply,
The two halves are octogonal prisms with height 9" and a distance of 18" vertex to vertex. We are assuming for now that the mass is evenly distributed about the volume, because hardware hasn't been placed within it. However, the Icm will remain blanced for all angles...
I am trying to find the moment of inertia for an assymetrical barbell shape. The mass as one end of the 2 meter boom is 9kg and at the other is 5.59kg. The boom or rod is a balloon-like tube and I am going to assume it is massless. I am using this information to calculate thrust impulses for...