Coordinate system

Coordinate system#

Global coordinate system#

Global coordinate systems are treated in the book Engineering Mechanics Volume 1 in chapter 1.3.2 (Hartsuijker and Welleman, 2006).

At Delft University of Technology, we normally point \(x\) to the right, \(z\) downwards and \(y\) towards the reader. And in a planar problem we have \(x\) to the right and \(z\) downwards.

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Instructions from lecture#

This topic is presented in a lecture available from 0:54:30 - 0:57:00 here (TU Delft login required)

Local coordinate system#

Local coordinate systems are treated in the book Engineering Mechanics Volume 1 in chapter 10.3 including figure 10.36 and 10.37 (Hartsuijker and Welleman, 2006).

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