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ISRN Mathematical Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 467520, 21 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/467520
Research Article

Rigid Body Trajectories in Different 6D Spaces

Carol Linton,1 William Holderbaum,1 and James Biggs2

1School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AY, UK
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UK

Received 26 April 2012; Accepted 4 June 2012

Academic Editors: G. Goldin, D. Ida, and J. A. Nieto

Copyright © 2012 Carol Linton et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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