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  2. Angular distance - Wikipedia

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    Angular distance. Angle between the two sightlines or two objects as viewed from an observer. Angular distance or angular separation is the measure of the angle between the orientation of two straight lines, rays, or vectors in three-dimensional space, or the central angle subtended by the radii through two points on a sphere. When the rays are ...

  3. Mechanics of planar particle motion - Wikipedia

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    In Figure 1, the arc length s is the distance the particle has traveled along its path in time t. The path r (t) with components x(t), y(t) in Cartesian coordinates is described using arc length s(t) as: [18] = [(), ()]. The arc length s(t) measures distance along the skywriter's trail.

  4. Angular acceleration - Wikipedia

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    In physics, angular acceleration (symbol α, alpha) is the time rate of change of angular velocity.Following the two types of angular velocity, spin angular velocity and orbital angular velocity, the respective types of angular acceleration are: spin angular acceleration, involving a rigid body about an axis of rotation intersecting the body's centroid; and orbital angular acceleration ...

  5. Angular velocity - Wikipedia

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    Classical mechanics. In physics, angular velocity (symbol ω or , the lowercase Greek letter omega), also known as angular frequency vector, [1] is a pseudovector representation of how the angular position or orientation of an object changes with time, i.e. how quickly an object rotates (spins or revolves) around an axis of rotation and how ...

  6. Piston motion equations - Wikipedia

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    For rod length 6" and crank radius 2" (as shown in the example graph below), numerically solving the acceleration zero-crossings finds the velocity maxima/minima to be at crank angles of ±73.17615°. Then, using the triangle law of sines, it is found that the rod-vertical angle is 18.60647° and the crank-rod angle is 88.21738°. Clearly, in ...

  7. Polar coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The distance from the pole is called the radial coordinate, radial distance or simply radius, and the angle is called the angular coordinate, polar angle, or azimuth. [1] Angles in polar notation are generally expressed in either degrees or radians (π rad being equal to 180° and 2 π rad being equal to 360°).

  8. Circular motion - Wikipedia

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    t. e. 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 ...

  9. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    To state this formally, in general an equation of motion M is a function of the position r of the object, its velocity (the first time derivative of r, v = ⁠dr dt⁠), and its acceleration (the second derivative of r, a = ⁠d2r dt2⁠), and time t. Euclidean vectors in 3D are denoted throughout in bold.