Euler Angles/ Rigid Body application

[redlegtwoone]

I apologize upfront, as I have no experience with math to begin with. However, I have a real life problem I am trying to figure out here at work and I would appreciate some help. Here is my situation:

Homework Statement

In a 3 dimensional plane, I have an artillery piece pointing at azimuth zero. Then, if I tilt (bank or roll) 4 degrees to the right, it is still pointing at azimuth of zero.
However, if I raise the tube 65 degrees it no longer points at AZ of 0.
How do I determine the new azimuth with the elevation and tilt added? The total length is 3 meters long, if that makes a difference.

The Attempt at a Solution

I tried to break it down into trigonomic functions before I knew about Euler angles, but it really goes beyond my mathematical comprehension. Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

-Red Leg 21

 

[voko]

I am not sure what kind of help can be given here. You already know about Euler's angles.

 

[redlegtwoone]

Right, but like I said I have no idea what all the little squiggly shapes and symbols mean. My knowledge of Euler's angles does not extend past how to spell Euler...

 

[voko]

Well, the whole topic of rotation in 3D has a lot of material and a number of different approaches. At a minimum, you have to understand, solidly, reference frames and vectors. Do you have that?