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Calculate the moment of inertia of a homogeneous cube

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Calculate the inertia tensor of a homogeneous cube of mass M and density D and sides b. Let one corner be at the origin and the 3 sides lie along the coordinate axes.

Please show all work including the matrix expansion in detail...I need to see how the tensor equation is used to generate a moment of inertia.

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