Rigid Body Kinematics

Summary

This video leads students through describing the motion of all points on a wobbly disk as a function of time. Properties of time independent rotation matrices are explored. The problem of the wobbly disk is scaffolded through a sequence of increasingly more complicated motions.

Learning Objectives

After watching this video students will be able to:

• Identify rotation matrices.
• Decompose the motion of the wobbly, thrown disk into translational and rotational components.
• Write the rotational motion of the disk as a product of rotation matrices.

Funding provided by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Developed by the Teaching and Learning Laboratory (TLL) at MIT for SUTD

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