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Kinematics is the study of position, velocity and acceleration without the need of forces. Kinematics, however, for years used kinematical relations to design linkages, gears and a number of complex engineering problems. Although in principle we can analyze the motion of a system of N degrees of freedom, we often rely on simple models to obtain realistic answers. The concept of a rigid body is a good example where we assume that the body doesn’t deform under the influence of external forces or simply the deformation is negligible. In this chapter, we set the foundation for the kinematical quantities needed to describe a rigid-body motion.
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(2006). Rigid-Body Kinematics. In: Fundamentals of Multibody Dynamics. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4406-7_2
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