Explore: Fixed Axis

orientations), in contrast to rotation around a fixed axis. The special case of a rotation with an internal axis passing through the body's own center of mass

Rotation around a fixed axis or axial rotation is a special case of rotational motion around an axis of rotation fixed, stationary, or static in three-dimensional

point on the rigid body remains fixed, is equivalent to a single rotation about some axis that runs through the fixed point. It also means that the composition

to a pure rotation about a single fixed axis. It is one of many rotation formalisms in three dimensions. The axis–angle representation is equivalent

In geometry, the major axis of an ellipse is its longest diameter: a line segment that runs through the center and both foci, with ends at the two most

Spin angular velocity refers to how fast a rigid body rotates around a fixed axis of rotation, and is independent of the choice of origin, in contrast to

with a single rotation around a fixed axis. This gives one common way of representing the orientation using an axis–angle representation. Other widely

type of smooth skew curve with tangent lines at a constant angle to a fixed axis. Helices are important in biology, as the DNA molecule is formed as two

it is possible to align the z axis of the fixed frame F with the axis of the cylinder. Then, the angle θ around this axis in the x–y plane can be used

inertia is constant (i.e., a flywheel with fixed mass and second moment of area revolving about some fixed axis) then the stored (rotational) energy is directly