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    Rotation around a fixed axis or axial rotation is a special case of rotational motion around an axis of rotation fixed, stationary, or static in three-dimensional...
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    of rotation, including chaotic rotation (between arbitrary orientations), in contrast to rotation around a fixed axis. The special case of a rotation with...
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    equivalent to a single rotation about some axis that runs through the fixed point. It also means that the composition of two rotations is also a rotation. Therefore...
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    origin), the axis of rotation; the screw also has a finite pitch (a fixed translation along its axis corresponding to a rotation about the screw axis). The instant...
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    Orientation (geometry) (category Rotation in three dimensions)
    rotates. Euler's rotation theorem shows that in three dimensions any orientation can be reached with a single rotation around a fixed axis. This gives one...
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    also known as obliquity, is the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently...
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    a complete orbit. In the case where a tidally locked body possesses synchronous rotation, the object takes just as long to rotate around its own axis...
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  • that can be used as the generators of rotations. Euler filter Orientation (geometry) Rotation around a fixed axis "Fiducial Marker Tracking for Augmented...
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  • Circular motion (category Rotation)
    tangential speed, or non-uniform with a changing rate of rotation. The rotation around a fixed axis of a three-dimensional body involves the circular motion...
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  • is a circle perpendicular to the line connecting its center to the apex, the motion is rotation around a fixed axis and the resulting shape is a circular...
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  • Specifically, they encode information about an axis-angle rotation about an arbitrary axis. Rotation and orientation quaternions have applications in...
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  • be no vectors fixed by the rotation (λ = 1), and thus no axis of rotation. Any fixed eigenvectors occur in pairs, and the axis of rotation is an even-dimensional...
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    free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors of normal forces...
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    in space") is the characteristic of a rotating body in which the direction of the axis of rotation remains fixed as the object moves through space. In...
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  • Internal rotation, a term in anatomy Optical rotation, rotation acting on polarized light Rotation around a fixed axis Rotational spectroscopy, a spectroscopy...
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    Abdul Qadeer Khan (redirect from A.Q. Khan)
    Shah and Alam, who solved the differential equations concerning rotation around a fixed axis under the influence of gravity, which led Khan to come up with...
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  • Spindle Fusiform, having a spindle-like shape Rotation around a fixed axis Spindel, a surname Spindler, a surname Spindling, in computing The Spindles...
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    motion of a rigid body around a fixed point. Rotation can have a sign (as in the sign of an angle): a clockwise rotation is a negative magnitude so a counterclockwise...
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    angular/rotational mass, second moment of mass, or most accurately, rotational inertia, of a rigid body is defined relatively to a rotational axis. It is...
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  • Pivot point (technical analysis), a time when a market price trend changes direction Center pin Rotation around a fixed axis This disambiguation page lists...
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    Earth's rotation or Earth's spin is the rotation of planet Earth around its own axis, as well as changes in the orientation of the rotation axis in space...
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    right about an axis running up and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation about an axis running from nose...
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    precession Celestial pole Declination Rotation around a fixed axis (pole) "Celestial Equator". Retrieved 5 August 2011. Berger, A.L. (1976). "Obliquity and Precession...
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  • composite rotations' associative property), the set of all rotations is a group under composition. Every non-trivial rotation is determined by its axis of rotation...
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    that any rotation or sequence of rotations of a rigid body in a three-dimensional space is equivalent to a pure rotation about a single fixed axis. It is...
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    effect: rotation of an object around its first and third principal axes is stable, whereas rotation around its second principal axis (or intermediate axis) is...
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    is axially symmetric. Axial symmetry can also be discrete with a fixed angle of rotation, 360°/n for n-fold symmetry. Axiality (geometry), the degree of...
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  • spacecraft. Three-axis stabilization is an alternative method of spacecraft attitude control in which the spacecraft is held fixed in the desired orientation...
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    not a simple rotation around an axis that remains always parallel to itself. Earth's rotational axis itself rotates about a second axis, orthogonal to...
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    respect to fixed axes. The most general equation of the second degree has the form Through a change of coordinates (a rotation of axes and a translation...
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