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.
The graphic on this page shows an equation of how to calculate the moment of inertia in its most general form. 1  It basically consists of the following steps: 2  Measure the distance r from any particle in the object to the axis of symmetry. 3  Square that distance. 4  Multiply that squared distance times the mass of the particle.