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Number of Degrees of Freedom of a Rigid Body System - Proof

Let us define the number of degrees of freedom of a material system as the number of scalar parameters needed to know the position of each particle of the system with respect to any inertial frame of ...
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Degrees of Freedom for an Asymmetric top

How many degrees of freedom does an asymmetric top have if it is rotating about a fixed point?What are the generalised coordinates used then?
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