4: Rigid Body Motion

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    This chapter discusses the motion of rigid bodies, with a heavy focus on its most nontrivial part: the rotation. Some byproduct results of this analysis enable a discussion, at the end of the chapter, of the motion of point particles as observed from non-inertial reference frames.

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