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Rotational Motion and Kinematics

We now turn to the motion of rigid bodies. Such bodies can rotate about an axis. We will see that all of the concepts that we have introduced for point masses can be extended in some way to rigid bodies. We first introduce the ideas of angular analogs to position, velocity and acceleration. We find a set of kinematic equations for rotational motion.

The main topics are:

• Angular Position and Displacement
• Radian Measure
• Angular Velocity
• Angular Acceleration
• Kinematics for Constant Angular Acceleration
• Analogs