Principal body frame

A principal body frame is an orthonormal basis fixed in the body and aligned with the principal axes of its inertia tensor. In this frame the inertia tensor is diagonal with principal moments

I_{1}, I_{2}, I_{3}

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- Derivative of a body-fixed basis vector Principal body frame 23

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