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Homework Statement
This is an answer to a problem involving rotating vectors
I can't figure out what the blank spaces mean. Are there 0's there? Are there 1's? Help.
What do the blanks mean in this rotating vectors problem?
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This is an answer to a problem involving rotating vectors
I can't figure out what the blank spaces mean. Are there 0's there? Are there 1's? Help.
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clamtrox
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They are zeroes.
g.lemaitre
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good, thanks.
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g.lemaitre said:Homework Statement
This is an answer to a problem involving rotating vectors
I can't figure out what the blank spaces mean. Are there 0's there? Are there 1's? Help.
clamtrox said:
And the reason you can't see them is they are the same tannish-brown color as the background. I can see them because I'm colorblind.
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LCKurtz said:And the reason you can't see them is they are the same tannish-brown color as the background. I can see them because I'm colorblind.
:)
You can easily figure this out: all rotation matrices have determinant of 1 (so they are what's called orthogonal matrices). In fact, you can see that this matrix has determinant of -1, so technically it's not a rotation but some combination of reflection and rotation.