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Angular velocity in Euler angles: and
Statement
Let be an interval with at least two points, let be differentiable with , and put the Euler-angle parametrization of The Euler-angle parametrization and the heavy symmetric top system. Then is a differentiable -valued curve, and its body angular velocity in the sense of Rigid placements, body and spatial angular velocity, and material velocities (the unique vector with ) is, in the standard basis, all functions evaluated at . Consequently Moreover, if and is the linear map with , , , then .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Differentiable with , the curve , and the matrices of The coordinate rotation matrices and : values in , composition law, and derivatives.
for all , , , and for differentiable one has and The coordinate rotation matrices and : values in , composition law, and derivatives.
The product rule for matrix-valued curves, the skewness of for an -valued curve, and the equivalence hold; moreover and Derivative rules for differentiable matrix-valued curves, and skewness of for a curve in , The skew-matrix/cross-product correspondence and its conjugation law , Rigid placements, body and spatial angular velocity, and material velocities.
and ; the algebra of derivatives holds The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine, The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then is differentiable at with , Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , Sine and cosine defined by their real power series. For the identity used below, [L1] gives , hence by [L3]. Its first column is , so the first diagonal entry of this product is by the matrix-product formula The coordinate rotation matrices and : values in , composition law, and derivatives, Rectangular matrix multiplication and the identity matrix , including zero-sized shapes.
Evaluation of , , and , is the column reading of the displayed matrices The coordinate rotation matrices and : values in , composition law, and derivatives.
Proof
By [L1] each of the three factors is a differentiable -valued curve; by the product rule [L2] and closure of under multiplication, is differentiable with values in . Hence is skew and there is a unique with by [L2].
By the conjugation identity of [L2] with and , and the column readings of [L5],
Differentiating the product and applying [L1],
Multiplying on the left by and using [L3] term by term,
Conjugating the first vector of step 1.2 by and using [L5], ; substituting into step 3.1 gives with exactly as displayed in the statement.
Reading off the components gives ; expanding the squares of the first two components and using from [L4] cancels the mixed terms and gives , whence .
For the diagonal map with , , , the quadratic form is , and substituting step 5.1 gives the displayed identity.
Remarks
- Relation to the kinetic energy. Combined with clause 2 of Kinetic energy and angular momentum of a rigid placement: and , the last identity says that a rigid placement with principal moments has rotational kinetic energy , which is the kinetic part of the heavy-top function of The Euler-angle parametrization and the heavy symmetric top system. No statement about a physical top is made by that comparison; it is the consuming physical items that identify the parameters.
Depends on
The Euler-angle parametrization and the heavy symmetric top system
The coordinate rotation matrices and : values in , composition law, and derivatives
The skew-matrix/cross-product correspondence and its conjugation law
Derivative rules for differentiable matrix-valued curves, and skewness of for a curve in
Rigid placements, body and spatial angular velocity, and material velocities
Kinetic energy and angular momentum of a rigid placement: and
Rectangular matrix multiplication and the identity matrix , including zero-sized shapes
The Euclidean inner product on
Sine and cosine defined by their real power series
The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine
The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then is differentiable at with
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
The derivative of at a point that is a limit point of , and differentiability on a set
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
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Sources
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (Cambridge lecture notes, 2015), §3.5.2, Eqs. (3.55)-(3.58), printed pp. 64-65: angular velocity in terms of Euler angles, with $\omega_3=\dot\psi+\dot\varphi\cos\theta$ and the squared transverse component
- K. Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics: Classical Mechanics, Ch. 4 §4.5, Eq. (4.74): principal-axis components of the instantaneous angular velocity in Euler angles
- G. J. Sussman and J. Wisdom, Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed. (MIT Press, 2014), §2.7 (Euler Angles) and §2.10, Eq. (2.86): the kinetic energy $\tfrac12A(\dot\theta^2+\dot\varphi^2\sin^2\theta)+\tfrac12C(\dot\psi+\dot\varphi\cos\theta)^2$