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For example, the daily rotation of the Earth is clockwise when viewed from above the South Pole, and counterclockwise when viewed from above the North Pole (considering "above a point" to be defined as "farther away from the center of earth and on the same ray"). The shadow of a horizontal sundial in the Northern Hemisphere rotates clockwise
In designing the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the decision was made to reverse the counter-rotation such that the tops of the propeller arcs move outwards (counterclockwise on the left and clockwise on the right), away from each other. Tests on the initial XP-38 prototype demonstrated greater accuracy in gunnery with the unusual configuration.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... the spiral flips between clockwise and counterclockwise orientations. It returns to its ...
In the new coordinate system, the point P will appear to have been rotated in the opposite direction, that is, clockwise through the angle . A rotation of axes in more than two dimensions is defined similarly. [2] [3] A rotation of axes is a linear map [4] [5] and a rigid transformation.
In the left hand diagram, the ring is rotating counter-clockwise; in the right hand diagram, it is rotating clockwise. To drive home this crucial point, compare the radar distances obtained by two ring-riding observers with radial coordinate R = R 0. In the left hand diagram at Fig. 8, we can write the coordinates of event A as
The counterclockwise-rotating vector (cos t, sin t) has a positive frequency of +1 radian per unit of time.Not shown is a clockwise-rotating vector (cos (−t), sin (−t)) which has a negative frequency of -1 radian per unit of time.
If the determinant is negative, then the polygon is oriented clockwise. If the determinant is positive, the polygon is oriented counterclockwise. The determinant is non-zero if points A, B, and C are non-collinear. In the above example, with points ordered A, B, C, etc., the determinant is negative, and therefore the polygon is clockwise.
Now the stack contains the convex hull, where the points are oriented counter-clockwise and P0 is the first point. Here, next_to_top() is a function for returning the item one entry below the top of stack, without changing the stack, and similarly, top() for returning the topmost element. This pseudocode is adapted from Introduction to Algorithms.