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    In physics, a rigid body, also known as a rigid object, is a solid body in which deformation is zero or negligible. The distance between any two given...
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    dynamics, rigid-body dynamics studies the movement of systems of interconnected bodies under the action of external forces. The assumption that the bodies are...
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    direction, or angular position of an object – such as a line, plane or rigid body – is part of the description of how it is placed in the space it occupies...
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  • describing the rotation of a rigid body, using a rotating reference frame with angular velocity ω whose axes are fixed to the body. Their general vector form...
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    origin. [citation needed] Spin angular velocity refers to how fast a rigid body rotates with respect to its center of rotation and is independent of the...
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    external forces acting on it. The body: This is usually a schematic depending on the body—particle/extended, rigid/non-rigid—and on what questions are to be...
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  • Degrees of freedom (mechanics) (category Rigid bodies)
    suspension can be considered to be a rigid body traveling on a plane (a flat, two-dimensional space). This body has three independent degrees of freedom...
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    be assumed to exist at one point), or a non-rotating rigid body depends on the mass of the body as well as its speed. The kinetic energy is equal to 1/2...
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  • displacements of rigid bodies. According to Chasles' theorem, every rigid transformation can be expressed as a screw motion. A rigid transformation is...
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  • consisting of numerous rigid linkages, the configuration space consists of the location of each linkage (taken to be a rigid body, as in the section above)...
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