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  2. Aircraft flight dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft flight dynamics. Flight dynamics is the science of air vehicle orientation and control in three dimensions. The three critical flight dynamics parameters are the angles of rotation in three dimensions about the vehicle's center of gravity (cg), known as pitch, roll and yaw. These are collectively known as aircraft attitude, often ...

  3. Moment of inertia - Wikipedia

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    The moment of inertia of a body with the shape of the cross-section is the second moment of this area about the -axis perpendicular to the cross-section, weighted by its density. This is also called the polar moment of the area, and is the sum of the second moments about the - and -axes. [24]

  4. Parallel axis theorem - Wikipedia

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    The parallel axis theorem, also known as Huygens–Steiner theorem, or just as Steiner's theorem, [1] named after Christiaan Huygens and Jakob Steiner, can be used to determine the moment of inertia or the second moment of area of a rigid body about any axis, given the body's moment of inertia about a parallel axis through the object's center of gravity and the perpendicular distance between ...

  5. Mohr's circle - Wikipedia

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    The double angle approach relies on the fact that the angle between the normal vectors to any two physical planes passing through (Figure 4) is half the angle between two lines joining their corresponding stress points (,) on the Mohr circle and the centre of the circle.

  6. Frenet–Serret formulas - Wikipedia

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    A top whose axis is situated along the binormal is observed to rotate with angular speed κ. If the axis is along the tangent, it is observed to rotate with angular speed τ. Concretely, suppose that the observer carries an (inertial) top (or gyroscope) with them along the curve. If the axis of the top points along the tangent to the curve ...

  7. Spacecraft flight dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Newton's second law, applied to rotational rather than linear motion, becomes: [33] =, where is the net torque about an axis of rotation exerted on the vehicle, I x is its moment of inertia about that axis (a physical property that combines the mass and its distribution around the axis), and is the angular acceleration about that axis in ...

  8. Orbital state vectors - Wikipedia

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    The X/Y plane coincides with Earth's equatorial plane, with the +X axis pointing toward the vernal equinox and the Y axis completing a right-handed set. The ECI reference frame is not truly inertial because of the slow, 26,000 year precession of Earth's axis , so the reference frames defined by Earth's orientation at a standard astronomical ...

  9. Tangent lines to circles - Wikipedia

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    If = + is the distance from c 1 to c 2 we can normalize by =, =, = to simplify equation (1), resulting in the following system of equations: + =, + =; solve these to get two solutions (k = ±1) for the two external tangent lines: = = + = (+) Geometrically this corresponds to computing the angle formed by the tangent lines and the line of ...