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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Axial tilt (redirect from Earth's rotation axis)
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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Tidal locking (redirect from Synchronous rotation)
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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Moment of inertia (redirect from Rotational inertia)
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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Aircraft principal axes (redirect from Yaw, pitch and roll (rotations))
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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Tennis racket theorem (redirect from Intermediate axis theorem)
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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Axial symmetry (redirect from Axis of symmetry)
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 attitude determination and control (redirect from Fixed Head Star Tracker)
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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Sidereal time (redirect from Sidereal rotation period)
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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