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3D visualization of a sphere and a rotation about an Euler axis (^) by an angle of In 3-dimensional space, according to Euler's rotation theorem, any rotation or sequence of rotations of a rigid body or coordinate system about a fixed point is equivalent to a single rotation by a given angle about a fixed axis (called the Euler axis) that runs through the fixed point. [6]
The positive and negative basis vectors form the eight-element quaternion group. Graphical representation of products of quaternion units as 90° rotations in the planes of 4-dimensional space spanned by two of {1, i, j, k}. The left factor can be viewed as being rotated by the right factor to arrive at the product. Visually i ⋅ j = − (j ⋅ i)
In mathematics, a versor is a quaternion of norm one (a unit quaternion).Each versor has the form = = + , =, [,], where the r 2 = −1 condition means that r is a unit-length vector quaternion (or that the first component of r is zero, and the last three components of r are a unit vector in 3 dimensions).
The perifocal coordinate system (with unit vectors p, q, w), against the reference coordinate system (with unit vectors I, J, K) The perifocal coordinate (PQW) system is a frame of reference for an orbit. The frame is centered at the focus of the orbit, i.e. the celestial body about which the orbit is centered.
In 3-space n = 3, the axis of a non-null proper rotation is always a unique line, and a rotation around this axis by angle θ has eigenvalues λ = 1, e iθ, e −iθ. In 4-space n = 4, the four eigenvalues are of the form e ±iθ, e ±iφ. The null rotation has θ = φ = 0.
Let the Plücker coordinates of a line in the direction x through a point p in a moving body and its coordinates in the fixed frame which is in the direction X through the point P be given by, x ^ = x + ε p × x and X ^ = X + ε P × X . {\displaystyle {\hat {x}}=\mathbf {x} +\varepsilon \mathbf {p} \times \mathbf {x} \quad {\text{and}}\quad ...
In mathematics, a rotation of axes in two dimensions is a mapping from an xy-Cartesian coordinate system to an x′y′-Cartesian coordinate system in which the origin is kept fixed and the x′ and y′ axes are obtained by rotating the x and y axes counterclockwise through an angle .
Mathematically vectors are elements of a vector space over a field, and for use in physics is usually defined with = or . Concretely, if the dimension n = dim ( V ) {\displaystyle n={\text{dim}}(V)} of V {\displaystyle V} is finite, then, after making a choice of basis , we can view such vector spaces as R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} or ...