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Plane Kinematics of rigid bodies

We will study rotation in detail.

Rotation:

If a rigid body moves so that along some straight line all the particles of the body, or a hypothetical extension of the body, have zero velocity relative to some reference, the body is said to be in rotation relative to this reference. The line of stationary particles is called the axis of rotation.
The rotation of a rigid body is described by its angular motion of any straight line of the body.