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  2. Eightfold way (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In the example above, when a proton is transformed by every possible flavour rotation A, it turns out that it moves around an 8 dimensional vector space. Those 8 dimensions correspond to the 8 particles in the so-called "baryon octet" (proton, neutron, Σ +, Σ 0, Σ −, Ξ −, Ξ 0, Λ

  3. Law of symmetry (crystallography) - Wikipedia

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    A crystal may have zero, one, or multiple axes of symmetry but, by the crystallographic restriction theorem, the order of rotation may only be 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold for each axis. An exception is made for quasicrystals which may have other orders of rotation, for example 5-fold. An axis of symmetry is also known as a proper rotation.

  4. Rotation around a fixed axis - Wikipedia

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    For example, a multi-spindle lathe is used to rotate the material on its axis to effectively increase the productivity of cutting, deformation and turning operations. [2] The angle of rotation is a linear function of time, which modulo 360° is a periodic function. An example of this is the two-body problem with circular orbits.

  5. Circular motion - Wikipedia

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    In physics, circular motion is movement of an object along the circumference of a circle or rotation along a circular arc. It can be uniform, with a constant rate of rotation and constant 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 ...

  6. Rotational symmetry - Wikipedia

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    n = 8, 45°: octad, Octagonal muqarnas, computer-generated (CG), ceiling; C n is the rotation group of a regular n-sided polygon in 2D and of a regular n-sided pyramid in 3D. If there is e.g. rotational symmetry with respect to an angle of 100°, then also with respect to one of 20°, the greatest common divisor of 100° and 360°.

  7. Rotation - Wikipedia

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    A sphere rotating (spinning) about an axis. Rotation or rotational motion is the circular movement of an object around a central line, known as an axis of rotation.A plane figure can rotate in either a clockwise or counterclockwise sense around a perpendicular axis intersecting anywhere inside or outside the figure at a center of rotation.

  8. Screw axis - Wikipedia

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    This multiple is indicated by a subscript. So, 6 3 is a rotation of 60° combined with a translation of one half of the lattice vector, implying that there is also 3-fold rotational symmetry about this axis. The possibilities are 2 1, 3 1, 4 1, 4 2, 6 1, 6 2, and 6 3, and the enantiomorphous 3 2, 4 3, 6 4, and 6 5. [8]

  9. Mach's principle - Wikipedia

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    In theoretical physics, particularly in discussions of gravitation theories, Mach's principle (or Mach's conjecture [1]) is the name given by Albert Einstein to an imprecise hypothesis often credited to the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.