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  2. Angular displacement - Wikipedia

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    The angular displacement (symbol θ, ϑ, or φ) – also called angle of rotation, rotational displacement, or rotary displacement – of a physical body is the angle (in units of radians, degrees, turns, etc.) through which the body rotates (revolves or spins) around a centre or axis of rotation.

  3. List of common physics notations - Wikipedia

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    Meaning SI unit of measure alpha: alpha particle: angular acceleration: radian per second squared (rad/s 2) fine-structure constant: unitless beta: velocity in terms of the speed of light c: unitless beta particle: gamma: Lorentz factor: unitless photon: gamma ray: shear strain: radian

  4. Rotation around a fixed axis - Wikipedia

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    Change in angular displacement per unit time is called angular velocity with direction along the axis of rotation. The symbol for angular velocity is and the units are typically rad s −1. Angular speed is the magnitude of angular velocity.

  5. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    the angular displacement of a particle rotating about an axis; the Watterson estimator in population genetics; the thermal resistance between two bodies; ϑ ("script theta"), the cursive form of theta, often used in handwriting, represents the first Chebyshev function in number theory; Theta role in linguistics

  6. Deflection (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    It may be quantified in terms of an angle (angular displacement) or a distance (linear displacement). A longitudinal deformation (in the direction of the axis) is called elongation . The deflection distance of a member under a load can be calculated by integrating the function that mathematically describes the slope of the deflected shape of ...

  7. Displacement (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Displacement is the shift in location when an object in motion changes from one position to another. [2] For motion over a given interval of time, the displacement divided by the length of the time interval defines the average velocity (a vector), whose magnitude is the average speed (a scalar quantity).

  8. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    It refers to the angular displacement per unit time (e.g. in rotation) or the rate of change of the phase of a sinusoidal waveform (e.g. in oscillations and waves), or as the rate of change of the argument of the sine function. Angular frequency (or angular speed) is the magnitude of the vector quantity that is angular velocity.

  9. Linear motion - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] If is the initial position of an object and is the final position, then mathematically the displacement is given by: = The equivalent of displacement in rotational motion is the angular displacement measured in radians. The displacement of an object cannot be greater than the distance because it is also a distance but the shortest one.