Rigid-body rotation — UPSC Physics Optional CSE 2024 Paper I

Show that the angular momentum of a rigid body consisting of n particles of masses m_i, i = 1, 2, 3, \dots, n, rotating with an instantaneous angular velocity \mathbf{\omega} about an axis passing through the origin O of the coordinate system OXYZ is given by \mathbf{L} = \mathbf{I} \cdot \mathbf{\omega}, where \mathbf{I} is known as the inertia tensor.