Ok, that is clearer. So your reference frame has a notion of time whereas,
Prasoon's base classes only have notion of space. Correct?


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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Sachin Joglekar <[email protected]>wrote:

> I agree. Hence, the classes I plan to build on top of Prasoon's core will
> have time-dependent functionality to support motion.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Tim Lahey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think it's necessary to have a reference frame that changes with
>> respect to time. Even something such as simple link can have a frame that
>> rotates with respect to the inertial frame. A rotating frame makes dealing
>> with the equations for a flexible link simpler. Plus, it's useful for
>> multi-body systems as well.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tim.
>>
>>
>> On 13 Mar 2014, at 13:29, Sachin Joglekar wrote:
>>
>>  Okay my words may have been a little confusing. To explain the terms
>>> better-
>>> *rotated* - oriented at a certain angle wrt the parent system
>>> *translated* - the origin of the translated system has a non-zero
>>> position
>>>
>>> vector wrt the parent system
>>>
>>> To put it more clearly, the orientation of the child system and the its
>>> origin's position vector are _not_ functions of time. Essentially,
>>> Prasoon's code does not deal with time at all. Its good to do simple
>>> vector
>>> calculus that does not involve time as a factor.
>>> By motion, I meant a system whose orientation/translation wrt its parent
>>> change with time.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Jason Moore <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  "A coordinate system is a mathematical concept that helps one describe
>>>> points or vectors(directions) in space. A reference frame, on the other
>>>> hand, is the extension of this concept to involve motion (time-dependent
>>>> quantities). Coordinate Systems may be rotated/translated with respect
>>>> to
>>>> each other, *but* they are stationary."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand this. How can a coordinate system be rotated and
>>>> translated yet be stationary. What is your definition of "motion"?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jason
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>>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Sachin Joglekar <
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Hello everyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have put up my proposal for the SymPy/PyDy project on creating a
>>>>> general-purpose vector calculus module for sympy. It will be a
>>>>> continuation
>>>>> of the work that was done by Prasoon and I last summer, and hopefully I
>>>>> plan to conclude it this time (much of it is currently unmerged). The
>>>>> details of the project are in my proposal at this link<
>>>>> https://github.com/pydy/pydy/wiki/GSoC-2014-
>>>>> Application:-srjoglekar246:-sympy.vector-module>
>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>> @Ondrej, Aaron, Stefan - please give your inputs for the same.
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