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Possible typo in orientation of reference frames exercise

Open clagms opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Thanks for the great content on this course.

I might be wrong, but maybe there's a typo in the exercise that starts with:

[Euler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler) discovered 6 of the 12 orientation sets. One of these sets is shown in this figure

I think where it states

The rightward yellow arrow is the x direction, leftward yellow arrow is the y direction

it should be

the leftward yellow arrow is the x direction, rightward yellow arrow is the y direction

I suspect the solution was done according to the conventions of previous material on the same page, and hence the zxz solution is consistent with the proposed changes.

Otherwise I think the solution would need to change, to be a zyz angle set.

Close this if it's just my misunderstanding.

Thanks!

clagms avatar Sep 20 '24 07:09 clagms

We did update the figure and I probably didn't update the text properly. I'll have a look. Thanks for reporting.

moorepants avatar Sep 20 '24 09:09 moorepants