virtual displacement in a sentence
Examples
- Depending on the settings, the displacement may be virtual, only modifying the surface normals to give the impression of displacement ( also known as bump mapping ) or a combination of real and virtual displacement.
- Lanczos presents this as the postulate : " The virtual work of the forces of reaction is always zero for any virtual displacement which is in harmony with the given kinematic constraints . " The argument is as follows.
- If arbitrary virtual displacements are assumed to be in directions that are orthogonal to the constraint forces ( which is not usually the case, so this derivation works only for special cases ), the constraint forces do no work.
- which has a similar form to the total differential of " L ", but the virtual displacements and their time derivatives replace differentials, and there is no time increment in accordance with the definition of the virtual displacements.
- which has a similar form to the total differential of " L ", but the virtual displacements and their time derivatives replace differentials, and there is no time increment in accordance with the definition of the virtual displacements.
- The principle states that the sum of the differences between the forces acting on a system of mass particles and the time derivatives of the momenta of the system itself along any virtual displacement consistent with the constraints of the system, is zero.
- and since these virtual displacements " ?q j " are independent and nonzero, the coefficients can be equated to zero, resulting in "'Lagrange's equations "'or the "'generalized equations of motion " ',
- In analytical mechanics, a branch of applied mathematics and physics, a "'virtual displacement "'? "'r " "'i " " is an assumed infinitesimal change of system coordinates occurring while time is held constant.
- Considering the virtual work, \ delta W, done by the total and inertial forces together through an arbitrary virtual displacement, \ delta \ mathbf r _ i, of the system leads to a zero identity, since the forces involved sum to zero for each particle.
- A special case of an infinitesimal displacement ( usually notated d "'r "'), a virtual displacement ( denoted ? "'r "') refers to an infinitesimal change in the position coordinates of a system such that the constraints remain satisfied.