Euler's equations Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This page discusses rigid body dynamics. For compressible fluid flow, see Euler equations.

In physics, Euler's equations govern the rotation of a rigid body. We choose the body fixed axes to be principal axes of inertia.

The equotations are:

where is the angular momentum of the body with respect to the space axes, the change of the angular momentum of the body with respect to the body fixed axes, the rate of change of the Euler angles of the body connected axes with respect to the space axes, and the external torque.

If we replace with it's components we can replace with . If we choose the base vectors to be the body fixed axes, the first three terms are equal to and the rest is

In component form, the Euler equations become

It is also possible to use these equotations if the axes in which is described are not connected to the body. should then be replaced with the rotation of the axes instead of the rotation of the body. It is however still required that the chosen axes are still principal axes of intertia! This form of the Euler equotations is handy for rotation symmetric objects that allow some of the principle axes of rotation to be chosen freely.

See Poinsot's construction.

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