Paper, 'On the displacement of a rigid body in space by rotations: Preliminary note' by John James Walker

Description

Walker writes: 'Having been led to study more particularly than, as far as I am aware, has hitherto been done the conditions of the arbitrary displacement of a rigid body in space by means of rotations only, the results arrived at in the case of the single pairs of axes seem to me of sufficient interest and completeness to warrant their being recorded. A comparison of these results with those arrived at by Rodrigues in his classic memoir “Des lois géometriques qui régissent les dé placements d’un systéme solide dans l’espace . . . .” ‘Liouville,’ vol. 5, 1840, at once suggesting itself, it may be proper here to recall the substance of the latter, and show how far they fall short of the object I propose to myself.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physics

Received 19 May 1893. Read 15 June 1893.

A version of this paper was published in volume 54 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the displacement of a rigid body in space by rotations. Preliminary note'.

Reference number

PP/22/12

Earliest possible date

18 May 1893

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

4 pages

Format

Manuscript