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As an application of the theory developed so far, we discuss the motion of a free rigid body about a fixed point. We begin with a discussion of the kinematics of rigid-body motion. Our description of the kinematics of rigid bodies follows some of the notation and conventions of continuum mechanics, as in Marsden and Hughes [1983].
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Marsden, J.E., Ratiu, T.S. (1999). The Free Rigid Body. In: Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 17. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21792-5_15
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