Vector Rotations in 3D

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This Demonstration lets you locate two points on a sphere. The points form a vector that can be rotated about the ,
, or
axes. The trace of the rotation is made using multiple vectors at 5° increments. Each of these vectors is the product of a rotation matrix (see Details) and the original vector.
Contributed by: Stephen Wilkerson (Towson University) (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Details
J. Stewart, Calculus, 5th ed., Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2003 pp. 840–842.
Rotation about the axis by
:
;
rotation aboput the axis by
:
;
rotation about the axis by
:
.
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