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By Felix Klein

The idea of the head: quantity I. advent to the Kinematics and Kinetics of the Top is the 1st of a sequence of 4 self-contained English translations of the vintage and definitive remedy of inflexible physique motion.

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* entire and unabridged presentation with contemporary advances and extra notes

* Annotations by way of the translators offer insights into the character of technological know-how and arithmetic within the past due nineteenth century

* every one quantity interweaves conception and applications

Volume I makes a speciality of delivering primary historical past fabric and easy theoretical thoughts. The idea of the Top used to be initially offered through Felix Klein as an 1895 lecture at Göttingen college that used to be broadened in scope and clarified due to collaboration with Arnold Sommerfeld. Graduate scholars and researchers attracted to theoretical and utilized mechanics will locate this an intensive and insightful account. different volumes during this sequence contain Development of the idea for the Heavy Symmetric best, Perturbations: Astronomical and Geophysical functions, and Technical functions of the speculation of the Top.

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One would wish to observe the existence and position of the instantaneous rotation axis of the moving top directly with the eye. This is difficult, especially for rapid rotation. It can be accomplished, however, by means of an ingenious method given by M a x w e l l* ). For this purpose, M a x w e l l fixes to the figure axis of the top a pasteboard disk that is divided into four differently colored sectors. During the motion, one sees in the ∗ ) Maxwell, Transact. R. Scott. Soc. of Arts 1855 or Scientific papers I, p.

Or One notes that both formulas coincide with (5) if one sets λ = λ , Λ = Λ , as holds for the points of the minimal cone. But now it is clear that only one of these two relations can signify a rotation. Namely, the second row is obtained from the first by the interchange of λ with λ , and thus by transforming each half line into its opposite. This operation, however, is not possible by any motion of three-dimensional space. On the other hand, one notices that each of the two formulas represents a continuum of transformations.

With respect to the sign of the root, we agree that this sign should always be calculated as positive for real values of x, y, z. We give the above equation, in the same way as earlier, the form (x + iy)(−x + iy) = (z + r)(z − r), or ξη = (ζ − r)(ζ + r), or, finally, ζ −r ξ = . ζ+r η If we denote the common value of the right and left sides in the last equation by λ, then we can write η 1 ξ (6) = λ, = . ζ +r ζ −r λ In this manner we have associated to all points of space a (generally complex) parameter λ that is uniquely determined for real points of space as a consequence of our agreement concerning the sign of r.

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