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Degrees of freedom (mechanics)
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Degrees of freedom (mechanics)
In
mechanics
, the
degree of freedom (DOF)
of a
mechanical system
is the number of independent parameters that define its configuration. It is the number of parameters that determine the state of a physical system and is important to the analysis of systems of bodies in
mechanical engineering
,
aeronautical engineering
,
robotics
, and
structural engineering
.
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