• geometry, a plane of rotation is an abstract object used to describe or visualize rotations in space. The main use for planes of rotation is in describing...
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    Rotation or rotational motion is the circular movement of an object around a central line, known as axis of rotation. A plane figure can rotate in either...
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    For a particular rotation: The axis of rotation is a line of its fixed points. They exist only in n > 2. The plane of rotation is a plane that is invariant...
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  • xy plane counterclockwise through an angle θ about the origin of a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. To perform the rotation on a plane point...
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    Optical rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about...
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    }}/\omega } is normal to the instantaneous plane of rotation or angular displacement. There are two types of angular velocity: Orbital angular velocity...
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    Rotation around a fixed axis or axial rotation is a special case of rotational motion around an axis of rotation fixed, stationary, or static in three-dimensional...
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  • simple rotations and double rotations. A simple rotation R about a rotation centre O leaves an entire plane A through O (axis-plane) fixed. Every plane B that...
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    specific rotation ([α]) is a property of a chiral chemical compound.: 244  It is defined as the change in orientation of monochromatic plane-polarized...
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    Bivector (redirect from Rotation bivector)
    plane, in the plane of the bivector. All other bivectors generate double rotations, with the two angles of the rotation equalling the magnitudes of the...
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