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On the reduction of the rotational equations of rigid body dynamics

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Indagine sulle condizioni necessarie e sufficienti per la riduzione di equazioni rotazionali relative alla dinamica di corpi rigidi in forme vettoriali semplificate.

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Necessary and sufficient conditions are investigated for reduction of the rotational equations of rigid body dynamics to simplified vectorial forms.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, USA

    James Casey & V. C. Lam

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Casey, J., Lam, V.C. On the reduction of the rotational equations of rigid body dynamics. Meccanica 22, 41–42 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01560125

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