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Angular Displacement Take a rigid body undergoing rotation related to an axis, perpendicular to the plane of the paper and passing through O. Consider that A and B are any two particles of the rigid body at the position 1 while A and B are their subsequent locations when the body is at the position 2. Since the body undergoes rotation, OA = OA Further i.e. Adding and OB = OB
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A A B 1 B 2

AB = AB, since the body is rigid. OAB OAB(congruent) AOB = AOB AOB to both sides of the above relation, we get BOB = AOA = (say)

This shows that in a given interval of time the angular displacements of all particles of the rigid objects undergoing rotation are identical. Therefore, a single variable, viz. angular displacement ( ) may be used to define the rotational motion of the rigid object.