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Homework Statement
When I try finding the principal moments of inertia with respect to different origins for any arbitrary configuration(assuming that the inertia tensor is diagonalized), I end up getting different values. Intuitively, this is quite acceptable because the mass distribution is different with respect to axes corresponding to different origins. But in both the cases, the directions of principal axes are the same which is what really matter. I would like to have the thoughts of you guys as well on the statements I have made.