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  2. Rigid body dynamics - Wikipedia

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    In the physical science of dynamics, rigid-body dynamics studies the movement of systems of interconnected bodies under the action of external forces.The assumption that the bodies are rigid (i.e. they do not deform under the action of applied forces) simplifies analysis, by reducing the parameters that describe the configuration of the system to the translation and rotation of reference ...

  3. Rigid transformation - Wikipedia

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    In dimension three, all rigid motions are also screw motions (this is Chasles' theorem) In dimension at most three, any improper rigid transformation can be decomposed into an improper rotation followed by a translation, or into a sequence of reflections. Any object will keep the same shape and size after a proper rigid transformation.

  4. Degrees of freedom (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    A single rigid body has at most six degrees of freedom (6 DOF) 3T3R consisting of three translations 3T and three rotations 3R. See also Euler angles. For example, the motion of a ship at sea has the six degrees of freedom of a rigid body, and is described as: [2] Translation and rotation: Walking (or surging): Moving forward and backward;

  5. Multibody system - Wikipedia

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    Multibody system is the study of the dynamic behavior of interconnected rigid or flexible bodies, each of which may undergo large translational and rotational displacements. Introduction [ edit ]

  6. Translation unit - Wikipedia

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    Loops of translation units are thought to be the basic units by which translations are produced. Thus, Malmkjaer, [6] for instance, defines process oriented translation units as a “stretch of the source text that the translator keeps in mind at any one time, in order to produce translation equivalents in the text he or she is creating” (p ...

  7. Rotation formalisms in three dimensions - Wikipedia

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    Consider a rigid body, with three orthogonal unit vectors fixed to its body (representing the three axes of the object's local coordinate system). The basic problem is to specify the orientation of these three unit vectors, and hence the rigid body, with respect to the observer's coordinate system, regarded as a reference placement in space.

  8. Chasles' theorem (kinematics) - Wikipedia

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    In kinematics, Chasles' theorem, or Mozzi–Chasles' theorem, says that the most general rigid body displacement can be produced by a screw displacement. A direct Euclidean isometry in three dimensions involves a translation and a rotation. The screw displacement representation of the isometry decomposes the translation into two components, one ...

  9. Screw theory - Wikipedia

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    Screw theory is the algebraic calculation of pairs of vectors, also known as dual vectors [1] – such as angular and linear velocity, or forces and moments – that arise in the kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies.