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  2. Plate trick - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and physics, the plate trick, also known as Dirac's string trick (after Paul Dirac, who introduced and popularized it), [1] [2] the belt trick, or the Balinese cup trick (it appears in the Balinese candle dance), is any of several demonstrations of the idea that rotating an object with strings attached to it by 360 degrees does not return the system to its original state, while ...

  3. Circle group - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, we adjust our answer by 360°, which gives 420° ≡ 60° (mod 360°). Another description is in terms of ordinary (real) addition, where only numbers between 0 and 1 are allowed (with 1 corresponding to a full rotation: 360° or ⁠ 2 π {\displaystyle 2\pi } ⁠ ), i.e. the real numbers modulo the integers: ⁠ T ≅ R / Z ...

  4. 180-degree rule - Wikipedia

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    In filmmaking, the 180-degree rule [1] is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. The rule states that the camera should be kept on one side of an imaginary axis between two characters, so that the first character is always frame right of the second ...

  5. Spinor - Wikipedia

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    corresponds to a vector rotation through an angle θ about an axis defined by a unit vector v = a 1 σ 1 + a 2 σ 2 + a 3 σ 3. As a special case, it is easy to see that, if v = σ 3, this reproduces the σ 1 σ 2 rotation considered in the previous section; and that such rotation leaves the coefficients of vectors in the σ 3 direction ...

  6. 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.

  7. Degree (angle) - Wikipedia

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    A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees. [4] It is not an SI unit—the SI unit of angular measure is the radian—but it is mentioned in the SI brochure as an accepted unit. [5]

  8. Spin-1/2 - Wikipedia

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    In particular, if a beam of spin-oriented spin-⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ particles is split, and just one of the beams is rotated about the axis of its direction of motion and then recombined with the original beam, different interference effects are observed depending on the angle of rotation. In the case of rotation by 360°, cancellation effects are ...

  9. Angular displacement - Wikipedia

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    In three dimensions, angular displacement is an entity with a direction and a magnitude. The direction specifies the axis of rotation, which always exists by virtue of the Euler's rotation theorem; the magnitude specifies the rotation in radians about that axis (using the right-hand rule to determine direction).