Screw axis
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screw-axis-232-2501128
title:
Screw axis
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A screw axis is a line that is simultaneously the axis of rotation and the line along which translation of a body occurs. Chasles' theorem shows that each Euclidean displacement in three-dimensional space has a screw axis, and the displacement can be decomposed into a rotation about and a slide along this screw axis. Plücker coordinates are used to locate a screw axis in space, and consist of a pair of three-dimensional vectors. The first vector identifies the direction of the axis, and the seco
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Geometric axis of rotation and translation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_axis
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2023-08-17T05:18:52Z
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