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| Rotational Kinematics |

This rotating giant Ferris wheel illustrates the central theme of this chapter, rotational kinematics, which deals with the concepts needed to describe rotational motion. These concepts are angular displacement, angular velocity, and angular acceleration. They are analogous to those used in Chapters 2 and 3 for describing linear motion. (eye35.com/Alamy Images)

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