Author: psteitz
Date: Sun May 13 21:28:00 2007
New Revision: 537703
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=537703
Log:
Fixed some typos, minor edits.
Modified:
jakarta/commons/proper/math/trunk/xdocs/userguide/geometry.xml
Modified: jakarta/commons/proper/math/trunk/xdocs/userguide/geometry.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/commons/proper/math/trunk/xdocs/userguide/geometry.xml?view=diff&rev=537703&r1=537702&r2=537703
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--- jakarta/commons/proper/math/trunk/xdocs/userguide/geometry.xml (original)
+++ jakarta/commons/proper/math/trunk/xdocs/userguide/geometry.xml Sun May 13
21:28:00 2007
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
<a href="../apidocs/org/apache/commons/math/geometry/Vector3D.html">
org.apache.commons.math.geometry.Vector3D</a> provides a simple
vector
type. One important feature is that instances of this class are
guaranteed
- to be immutable, this greatly simplifies modelization of dynamical
systems
+ to be immutable, this greatly simplifies modelling dynamical systems
with changing states: once a vector has been computed, a reference
to it
is known to preserve its state as long as the reference itself is
preserved.
</p>
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
<p>
Rotations can be represented by several different mathematical
entities (matrices, axe and angle, Cardan or Euler angles,
- quaternions). This class presents an higher level abstraction, more
- user-oriented and hiding this implementation details. Well, for the
+ quaternions). This class presents a higher level abstraction, more
+ user-oriented and hiding implementation details. Well, for the
curious, we use quaternions for the internal representation. The user
can build a rotation from any of these representations, and any of
these representations can be retrieved from a <code>Rotation</code>
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
</p>
<source>double[] angles = new Rotation(matrix,
1.0e-10).getAngles(RotationOrder.XYZ);</source>
<p>
- Focus is oriented on what a rotation <em>do</em> rather than on its
+ Focus is oriented on what a rotation <em>does</em> rather than on its
underlying representation. Once it has been built, and regardless of
its internal representation, a rotation is an <em>operator</em> which
basically transforms three dimensional vectors into other three
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
often consider the vectors are fixed (say the Earth direction for
example) and the rotation transforms the coordinates coordinates of
this vector in inertial frame into the coordinates of the same vector
- in satellite frame. In this case, the rotation implicitely defines
the
+ in satellite frame. In this case, the rotation implicitly defines the
relation between the two frames (we have fixed vectors and moving
frame).
Another example could be a telescope control application, where the
rotation would transform the sighting direction at rest into the
desired
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