Rotation in mathematics is a concept originating in geometry. Any rotation is a motion of a certain space that preserves at least one point. It can describe... 24 KB (3,129 words) - 11:23, 3 May 2024 |
known as versors, provide a convenient mathematical notation for representing spatial orientations and rotations of elements in three dimensional space... 66 KB (11,503 words) - 03:18, 19 April 2024 |
express a rotation in three dimensions as a mathematical transformation. In physics, this concept is applied to classical mechanics where rotational (or angular)... 71 KB (12,937 words) - 22:29, 8 May 2024 |
In the theory of three-dimensional rotation, Rodrigues' rotation formula, named after Olinde Rodrigues, is an efficient algorithm for rotating a vector... 14 KB (2,019 words) - 15:15, 24 April 2024 |
Mathematically, a rotation is a rigid body movement which, unlike a translation, keeps at least one point fixed. This definition applies to rotations... 29 KB (4,040 words) - 06:11, 6 May 2024 |
Rotation operator may refer to: An operator that specifies a rotation (mathematics) Three-dimensional rotation operator Rot (operator) aka Curl, a differential... 286 bytes (61 words) - 23:38, 29 December 2019 |
In linear algebra, a rotation matrix is a transformation matrix that is used to perform a rotation in Euclidean space. For example, using the convention... 99 KB (15,019 words) - 17:01, 14 April 2024 |
In mathematics and physics, vector is a term that refers informally to some quantities that cannot be expressed by a single number (a scalar), or to elements... 10 KB (2,010 words) - 16:02, 9 April 2024 |
Bunch, Bryan H. (1982). Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes. Van Nostrand Reinhold. pp. 10–11. ISBN 0-442-24905-5. "Rotational dynamics - Center of wheel... 8 KB (1,005 words) - 06:09, 8 April 2024 |
In mathematics, a rotation of axes in two dimensions is a mapping from an xy-Cartesian coordinate system to an x′y′-Cartesian coordinate system in which... 12 KB (1,640 words) - 16:43, 12 April 2024 |
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... 43 KB (4,891 words) - 19:00, 5 May 2024 |
may also refer to: Rotation (anatomy) Rotation (mathematics) Rotation (medicine), medical student training Rotation (physics), ratio between a given angle... 2 KB (314 words) - 17:51, 24 July 2023 |
In mathematics, the rotation number is an invariant of homeomorphisms of the circle. It was first defined by Henri Poincaré in 1885, in relation to the... 5 KB (667 words) - 00:09, 29 April 2024 |
In discrete mathematics, tree rotation is an operation on a binary tree that changes the structure without interfering with the order of the elements.... 10 KB (1,443 words) - 07:22, 19 March 2024 |
mathematics, a function defined on an inner product space is said to have rotational invariance if its value does not change when arbitrary rotations... 4 KB (624 words) - 00:55, 17 April 2024 |
In mathematics, the group of rotations about a fixed point in four-dimensional Euclidean space is denoted SO(4). The name comes from the fact that it... 37 KB (5,712 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2024 |
two rotations results in another rotation, every rotation has a unique inverse rotation, and the identity map satisfies the definition of a rotation. Owing... 65 KB (11,405 words) - 02:20, 6 May 2024 |
Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world... 15 KB (1,800 words) - 01:04, 14 April 2024 |
to a reflection. The statements above can be expressed more mathematically. Let a rotation about the origin O by an angle θ be denoted as Rot(θ). Let a... 6 KB (812 words) - 22:32, 27 March 2024 |
Turn (angle) (redirect from Complete rotation) or "number of cycles") is formalized as a dimensionless quantity called rotation, defined as the ratio of a given angle and a full turn. It is represented... 46 KB (3,226 words) - 08:15, 10 May 2024 |
infinitesimal rotation matrix or differential rotation matrix is a matrix representing an infinitely small rotation. While a rotation matrix is an orthogonal... 16 KB (2,787 words) - 22:19, 11 March 2024 |
Right-hand rule (category Vectors (mathematics and physics)) recognized for his development of quaternions, a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional rotations, is often attributed with the introduction... 16 KB (2,084 words) - 13:33, 12 March 2024 |
Torsion (redirect from Wheel rotation) Look up torsion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Torsion may refer to: Torsion (mechanics), the twisting of an object due to an applied torque Torsion... 2 KB (226 words) - 14:35, 19 January 2024 |
In mathematics, a group is a set with an operation that satisfies the following constraints: the operation is associative and has an identity element... 101 KB (13,105 words) - 22:11, 27 April 2024 |
Euler angles (redirect from Euler rotation) composition of rotations chained rotations. The geometrical definition demonstrates that three composed elemental rotations (rotations about the axes... 46 KB (5,208 words) - 10:57, 5 May 2024 |
Axis–angle representation (redirect from Rotation vector) In mathematics, the axis–angle representation parameterizes a rotation in a three-dimensional Euclidean space by two quantities: a unit vector e indicating... 14 KB (2,027 words) - 09:15, 10 March 2024 |
In geometry, an improper rotation (also called rotation-reflection, rotoreflection, rotary reflection, or rotoinversion) is an isometry in Euclidean space... 8 KB (814 words) - 12:46, 2 October 2023 |
Angular momentum (redirect from Angular rotational momentum) angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum. It is an important physical quantity... 93 KB (13,458 words) - 13:02, 24 April 2024 |