See Lucky Number 11 Meaning Usage History Diocletian Meaning From the Roman cognomen Diocletianus, a derivative of Diokles. This was the name of a Roman emperor of the 3rd and 4th centuries. He is remembered for persecuting Christians, but he also reformed and stabilized the crumbling Empire.
by analogy with the moment of inertia tensor, which has negative signs on the off-diagonal elements and, unlike the moment of inertia tensor, is not expressed in term of mass of the lamina.
This article is about the mass moment of inertia of a rotating object. For area moment of inertia in beam bending, see Second moment of area. Tightrope walker Samuel Dixon using the long rod's moment of inertia for balance while crossing the Niagara River in 1890.