Formalism for the rotation matrix of rotations about an arbitrary axis
Abstract
In this paper a formalism is developed that enables one to write down by inspection the matrix which represents the transformation between two coordinate systems, one of which is rotated by an angle Ï‘ about an arbitrary axis. Only the direction cosines of the rotation axis and Ï‘ need be known. It is pointed out that this transformation is not discussed in the usual treatments of classical mechanics.
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 1976
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- Bibcode:
- 1976AmJPh..44...63P
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- 03.20.+i