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The position of a rigid body is determined by the position of its center of mass and by its orientation... The position of a rigid body is determined by the position of its center of mass and by its orientation... The position of a rigid body is determined by the position of its center of mass and by its... of a rigid body remains constant in time regardless of external... In classical mechanics a rigid body is usually considered as a continuous mass distribution... a rigid body is usually thought of as a collection of point masses... the position of a rigid body has two components... the position of a rigid body can be viewed as an hypothetic translation and rotation... all points on a rigid body move with the same... at which the orientation of the rigid body is changing and the instantaneous... All points on a rigid body experience the same... The angular velocity of a rigid body B in a reference frame N is equal to the sum of the angular velocity... of a rigid body D in N and the angular velocity of B with respect D... N of a point Q fixed on a rigid body B can be expressed as... If the point R is moving in rigid body B while B moves in reference frame N... of a rigid body is defined as the... is equal to the total mass of the rigid body times the translational velocity... The net external force on the rigid body is always equal to the total mass times the translational acceleration... of a rigid body with one point fixed...

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