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Appendix D 279<br />

I<br />

The result is a rotation:<br />

• Intheoriginalcoordinatesystem,thenewvectorx 0 corresponds to the result of<br />

an anti-clockwise rotation of x around .<br />

• Alternatively, we can say that x 0 isgiveninanewcoordinatesystemthatis<br />

obtained by a clockwise rotation of the old coordinate system around .<br />

I Rotation matrices and rotation operators: A is called a rotation matrix. Weshall<br />

also call A a rotation operator.<br />

I<br />

Exercise D.1: Show that Eqs. D.36 - D.38 does describe an anti-clockwise rotation<br />

of the vector x to the new vector x 0 and determine its coordinates using trigonometric<br />

arguments. ¤

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