Rigid body description and motion


This includes the mathematical description of rigid bodies and their translational motion.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Science Physics Mechanics Rigid body mechanics

This includes the mathematical description of rigid bodies and their translational motion.

Linear and angular acceleration

Linear and angular velocity

Location and orientation

Extended bodies

This has to do with the mass, shape and size of extended bodies in three dimensions, two dimensions (planes), and one dimension (lines).


The history of rigid body description and motion is not generally well known. It does not seem to have been considered much before classical and medieval times, and fairly little even them. Most of its development is modern. The future is obscure. Sociology including social structure and change, communities, and peoples of the world will also be connected. Social institutions including families, education, economics, government, and religion have some connection. Parts of culture including material culture, conceptual culturre, and behavioral culture will be useful. Anthropology including particular groups, human geography, human ecology, physical anthropology, demography, and social foundations seems less useful. Personal studies including biography can be applied to some extent. Psychology including behavioral foundations, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology seems to be indirectly connected. The human body including form and apparance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems presents a number of applications of rigid body description and motion.
Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory has some applications. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory has some applications. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and Solar system astronomy also has applications. There are applications in chemistry, including substances, changes, and mostly systems.	Links to other sites: Not yet available.
The structure of matter may be helpful. This does not depend heavily on quantium mechanics or relativity. Electromagnetism may be connected. Thermodynamics is minimally useful, though thermal expansion and contraction are useful. This will be connected somewhat to other areas of mechanics. Rigid body description is also related to gravitation, nonrigid mechanics, and other aspects of rigid body mechanics. It depends heavily on particle mechanics. Particle systems, energetics, and kinetics can be considered. Kinetics including types and cases of force, concepts of force, momentum, and mass can be considered. Kinematics including types and cases of motion, acceleration, velocity, and position can be considered. Rigid bodies are generally not simple particles, but if their size or internal motions are sufficiently, they can sometimes be treated as such.

The history of rigid body description and motion is not generally well known. It does not seem to have been considered much before classical and medieval times, and fairly little even them. Most of its development is modern. The future is obscure.

Sociology including social structure and change, communities, and peoples of the world will also be connected.

Social institutions including families, education, economics, government, and religion have some connection.

Parts of culture including material culture, conceptual culturre, and behavioral culture will be useful.

Anthropology including particular groups, human geography, human ecology, physical anthropology, demography, and social foundations seems less useful. Personal studies including biography can be applied to some extent. Psychology including behavioral foundations, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology seems to be indirectly connected. The human body including form and apparance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems presents a number of applications of rigid body description and motion.

Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory has some applications. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory has some applications. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and Solar system astronomy also has applications. There are applications in chemistry, including substances, changes, and mostly systems.

Links to other sites: Not yet available.

The structure of matter may be helpful. This does not depend heavily on quantium mechanics or relativity. Electromagnetism may be connected. Thermodynamics is minimally useful, though thermal expansion and contraction are useful.

This will be connected somewhat to other areas of mechanics. Rigid body description is also related to gravitation, nonrigid mechanics, and other aspects of rigid body mechanics. It depends heavily on particle mechanics. Particle systems, energetics, and kinetics can be considered. Kinetics including types and cases of force, concepts of force, momentum, and mass can be considered. Kinematics including types and cases of motion, acceleration, velocity, and position can be considered. Rigid bodies are generally not simple particles, but if their size or internal motions are sufficiently, they can sometimes be treated as such.