Mathematics-Online lexicon: Decomposition of a Rotation Matrix

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	Mathematics-Online lexicon:
	Decomposition of a Rotation Matrix

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A rotation

in $\mathbb{R}^3$ can be composed of rotations about the coordinate axes:

$\displaystyle Q = D_z D_y D_x \,.$

(Authors: Höllig/Reble/Höfert)

Annotation:

automatically generated 2/10/2005