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Derivation of Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula

Derivation of Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula
Christopher Lum
43 min
Intermediate
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Theory

In this video we explain and derive Rodrigues’ Rotation Formula. This functions describes how to rotate an arbitrary vector about another arbitrary axis of rotation. This has applications to orbital mechanics, computer graphics, rigid body kinematics, and dynamic system simulation. This is also known as Goldstein’s Rotation of a Vector Formula.

 

 

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