rotation geometry rules counterclockwise

#Rotation geometry rules counterclockwise full#

Negative 270 degree rotation, but if we're talking aboutĪ 270 degree rotation. In the previous video when we were rotating around the origin, if you rotate something by, last time we talked about a So, to help us think about that I've copied and pasted this on my scratch pad and we can draw through it and the first thing that we might wanna think about is if you rotate, I've talked about this So, this would be 270 degrees in the counter-clockwise direction. The direction of rotation by a positive angle is counter-clockwise. We have this little interactive graph tool where we can draw points or if we wanna put them in the trash we can put them there. Triangle SAM, S-A-M, and this is one over here, S-A-M, is rotated 270 degrees, about the point four comma negative two. But it's easy to calibrate it if you want to specify another point, around which you want to rotate - just make that point the new origin! Figure out the other points' coordinates with respect to your new origin, do the transformations, and then translate everything back to coordinates with respect to the old origin. Now, since (a, b) are coordinates with respect to the origin, this only works if we rotate around that point. Rotating (a, b) 360° would result in the same (a, b), of course. Because the axes of the Cartesian plane are themselves at right angles, the coordinates of the image points are easily predictable: with a bit of experimentation, you could easily 'prove' to yourself that rotating (a, b) 90° would result in (-b, a) rotation of 180° gives us (-a, -b) and one of 270° would bring us to (b, -a). Gets us to point A.Here's my idea about doing this in a bit more 'mathematical' way: every rotation I've seen until now (in the '.about arbitrary point' exercise) has been of a multiple of 90°. That and it looks like it is getting us right to point A. Our center of rotation, this is our point P, and we're rotating by negative 90 degrees. Which point is the image of P? So once again, pause this video and try to think about it. Than 60 degree rotation, so I won't go with that one. And it looks like it's the same distance from the origin. Like 1/3 of 180 degrees, 60 degrees, it gets us to point C.

#Rotation geometry rules counterclockwise full#

So does this look like 1/3 of 180 degrees? Remember, 180 degrees wouldīe almost a full line. One way to think about 60 degrees, is that that's 1/3 of 180 degrees. So this looks like aboutĦ0 degrees right over here. P is right over here and we're rotating by positive 60 degrees, so that means we go counterĬlockwise by 60 degrees. It's being rotated around the origin (0,0) by 60 degrees.

Which point is the image of P? Pause this video and see That point P was rotated about the origin (0,0) by 60 degrees.

I included some other materials so you can also check it out. There are many different explains, but above is what I searched for and I believe should be the answer to your question. There is also a system where positive degree is clockwise and negative degree anti-clockwise, but it isn't widely used. Product of unit vector in X direction with that in the Y direction has to be the unit vector in the Z direction (coming towards us from the origin). Clockwise for negative degree.įor your second question, it is mainly a conventional that mathematicians determined a long time ago for easier calculation in various aspects such as vectors.