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Euler's Displacement Theorem


The general displacement of a rigid body (or coordinate frame) with one point fixed is a rotation about some axis. Furthermore, a rotation may be described in any basis using three angles.


See also

Euclidean Motion, Euler Angles, Rigid Motion, Rotation, Translation

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Euler's Displacement Theorem." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/EulersDisplacementTheorem.html

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