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We can move a rigid body about by moving it, through translation, and by rotating it, through rotation. Up to now we have only discussed translational motion. In this chapter we will introduce the tools to describe rotations.
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You will learn more about conditions for this later, when we discuss the physics of rotational motion.
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Malthe-Sorenssen, A. (2015). Rotational Motion. In: Elementary Mechanics Using Matlab. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19587-2_14
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