Peter,

I opened this issue: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/23075

Jason
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 7:28 PM Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> Peter,
>
> If orient_body_fixed produces longer equations of motion than chaining
> orient_axis (or the older orient() and orientnew()), then we should figure
> out what the problem is with orient_body_fixed.  orient_body_fixed should
> produce shorter equations of motion because the angular velocities are
> supposed to be in the simplest form.
>
> Jason
> moorepants.info
> +01 530-601-9791
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 6:41 PM Peter Stahlecker <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Jason,
>>
>> As to the speed of the new terms, I simply tried it, using the equations
>> of motion of a one body pendulum.
>> There is no difference to the older terms:
>>
>> with the *body* version the the rhs has 863, 824 operations.
>> with the axis version, 2 intermediate frames, the rhs has 43,722
>> operations.
>>
>> The operations count was *exactly* the same with older and newer terms.
>>
>> Take care, Peter
>>
>> On Mon 14. Feb 2022 at 18:04 Peter Stahlecker <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Jason,
>>>
>>> Just read you latest addition about vectors and reference frames.
>>> Small question:
>>> In order to rotate a frame relative to another one, you use these terms
>>> *A.orient_axis(N, ..)*
>>> *A.orient_body_fixed(N, …)*
>>>
>>> I assume, these are the new versions for
>>> A.orientnew(N, ‚Axis‘, …)
>>> A.orientnew(N, ‚Body, …)
>>>
>>> You might recall, that I ‚empirically‘ found that the *Body* version
>>> created much larger equations of motion compared to using ‚intermediate ‚
>>> *Axis*‘ versions.
>>>
>>> Is it better to use *orient_body_fixed,* to avoid this issue of larger
>>> equations of motion?
>>>
>>> Thanks & take care!
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun 6. Feb 2022 at 08:19 Peter Stahlecker <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Jason,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for your explanation! Clear!
>>>> I checked on metaclasses, but I must admit I mostly understood, that a
>>>> simple user like me should not mess with them!  :-))
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> On Sun 6. Feb 2022 at 07:49 Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Peter,
>>>>>
>>>>> All `dynamicsymbols` is, is:
>>>>>
>>>>> f = Function('f')
>>>>> t = symbols('t')
>>>>> f_of_t = f(t)
>>>>>
>>>>> The last line `f(t)` is generating a new class of type f, instead of
>>>>> using a predefined class (look up metaclasses). So the user, typically not
>>>>> aware of this element in Python, is confused about what they are working
>>>>> with in the last line. It is just the way SymPy Function works. There are
>>>>> open issues about trying to change it to something more sensible for the
>>>>> user to understand.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jason
>>>>> moorepants.info
>>>>> +01 530-601-9791
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 7:39 AM Peter Stahlecker <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> My question is more for my ‚general education‘ in sympy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I write this little program
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *from sympy.physics.mechanics import **
>>>>>> *import sympy as sm*
>>>>>> *a = dynamicsymbols(‚a‘)*
>>>>>> *b = sm.symbols(‚b‘)*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *print(‚type of a:‘,  type(a))*
>>>>>> *print(‚type of b:‘, type(b))*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I get this result:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *type of a:  a*
>>>>>> *type of b: class sympy.core.symbols.Symbols*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is seems that *a* does not have a type. How can that be? I thought
>>>>>> in python ‚everything‘ has a type.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> Any explanation is highly appreciated!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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