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  2. Active and passive transformation - Wikipedia

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    In the passive transformation (right), point P stays fixed, while the coordinate system rotates counterclockwise by an angle θ about its origin. The coordinates of P ′ after the active transformation relative to the original coordinate system are the same as the coordinates of P relative to the rotated coordinate system.

  3. Coriolis force - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the Coriolis force is a fictitious force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame. In a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the force acts to the left of the motion of the object. In one with anticlockwise (or counterclockwise) rotation, the force acts to the right.

  4. Elliptical polarization - Wikipedia

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    When increases from zero, i.e., assumes positive values, the line evolves into an ellipse that is being traced out in the counterclockwise direction (looking in the direction of the propagating wave); this then corresponds to left-handed elliptical polarization; the semi-major axis is now oriented at an angle .

  5. Rotating reference frame - Wikipedia

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    In the inertial frame of reference (upper part of the picture), the black ball moves in a straight line. However, the observer (red dot) who is standing in the rotating/non-inertial frame of reference (lower part of the picture) sees the object as following a curved path due to the Coriolis and centrifugal forces present in this frame.

  6. Rotation of axes in two dimensions - Wikipedia

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    The equations defining the transformation in two dimensions, which rotates the xy axes counterclockwise through an angle into the x′y′ axes, are derived as follows. In the xy system, let the point P have polar coordinates ( r , α ) {\displaystyle (r,\alpha )} .

  7. Rotation matrix - Wikipedia

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    where for every direction in the base space, S n, the fiber over it in the total space, SO(n + 1), is a copy of the fiber space, SO(n), namely the rotations that keep that direction fixed. Thus we can build an n × n rotation matrix by starting with a 2 × 2 matrix, aiming its fixed axis on S 2 (the ordinary sphere in three-dimensional space ...

  8. Chirality (physics) - Wikipedia

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    [2] (cf. Current algebra.) A scalar field model encoding chiral symmetry and its breaking is the chiral model. The most common application is expressed as equal treatment of clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations from a fixed frame of reference. The general principle is often referred to by the name chiral symmetry.

  9. Mohr's circle - Wikipedia

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    As shown in Figure 6, to determine the stress components (,) acting on a plane at an angle counterclockwise to the plane on which acts, we travel an angle in the same counterclockwise direction around the circle from the known stress point (,) to point (,), i.e., an angle between lines ¯ and ¯ in the Mohr circle.