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  2. Rotation of axes in two dimensions - Wikipedia

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    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 the origin is kept fixed and the x′ and y′ axes are obtained by rotating the x and y axes counterclockwise through an angle . A point P has coordinates (x, y) with respect to the ...

  3. Rotations and reflections in two dimensions - Wikipedia

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    A rotation in the plane can be formed by composing a pair of reflections. First reflect a point P to its image P′ on the other side of line L1. Then reflect P′ to its image P′′ on the other side of line L2. If lines L1 and L2 make an angle θ with one another, then points P and P′′ will make an angle 2θ around point O, the ...

  4. Rotation matrix - Wikipedia

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    Every rotation in three dimensions is defined by its axis (a vector along this axis is unchanged by the rotation), and its angle — the amount of rotation about that axis (Euler rotation theorem). There are several methods to compute the axis and angle from a rotation matrix (see also axis–angle representation ).

  5. Spacetime diagram - Wikipedia

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    The x, y, z axes of frame S are oriented parallel to the respective primed axes of frame S′. The origins of frames S and S′ coincide at time t = 0 in frame S and also at t′ = 0 in frame S′. [2]: 107 Frame S′ moves in the x-direction of frame S with velocity v as measured in frame S.

  6. Frenet–Serret formulas - Wikipedia

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    (Rotation) r(t) + v → M(r(t) + v), where M is the matrix of a rotation. The Frenet–Serret frame is particularly well-behaved with regard to Euclidean motions. First, since T, N, and B can all be given as successive derivatives of the parametrization of the curve, each of them is insensitive to the addition of a constant vector to r(t).

  7. Euler angles - Wikipedia

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    The axes of the original frame are denoted as x, y, z and the axes of the rotated frame as X, Y, Z.The geometrical definition (sometimes referred to as static) begins by defining the line of nodes (N) as the intersection of the planes xy and XY (it can also be defined as the common perpendicular to the axes z and Z and then written as the vector product N = z × Z).

  8. Right-hand rule - Wikipedia

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    Right-hand rule. In mathematics and physics, the right-hand rule is a convention and a mnemonic, utilized to define the orientation of axes in three-dimensional space and to determine the direction of the cross product of two vectors, as well as to establish the direction of the force on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field.

  9. Davenport chained rotations - Wikipedia

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    Let's denote the frame 0 as the initial frame, the frame 1 after the first rotation around the x axis, the frame 2 after the second rotation around the y’ axis, and the frame 3 as the third rotation around z″ axis. Since a rotation matrix can be represented among these three frames, let's use the left shoulder index to denote the ...