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Physics 321. Hour 24 Accelerating Reference Frames I. Consider an accelerating train car. Glass of water in a car Tides. Examples. Euler’s Theorem Any tiny rotation can be considered as a rotation about a fixed axis.
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Physics 321 Hour 24 Accelerating Reference Frames I
Glass of water in a car • Tides Examples
Euler’s Theorem • Any tiny rotation can be considered as a rotation about a fixed axis. • (Complex rotations can be taken to be a series of infinitesimal rotations.) • Tiny rotations commute. • (Larger rotations do not commute.) Two Angular Momentum Theorems
Any unit vector can be written as In general where S0 is the lab (inertial) frame and S’ is a frame rotating with angular velocity . Proof
Angular velocity vector (r.h.r.) • Let be a unit vector fixed in a body • In particular • In general Angular Velocity