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The notion of rotation appears naturally in physics, and is geometrically formulated in terms of a euclidean structure as a suitable linear map on a real vector space. The aim of this chapter is to analyse the main properties of rotations using the spectral theory previously developed, as well as to recover known results from classical mechanics, using the geometric language we are describing.
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Landi, G., Zampini, A. (2018). Rotations. In: Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry for Physical Sciences. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78361-1_11
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