Six Degrees of Freedom
The motion of a ship at sea has the six degrees of freedom of a rigid body, and is described as:
Translation:
- Moving up and down (heaving);
- Moving left and right (swaying);
- Moving forward and backward (surging);
Rotation
- Tilting forward and backward (pitching);
- Turning left and right (yawing);
- Tilting side to side (rolling).
The trajectory of an airplane in flight has three degrees of freedom and its attitude along the trajectory has three degrees of freedom, for a total of six degrees of freedom.
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