The term kinematic is the English version of A.M. Ampère's cinématique, which he constructed from the Greek κίνημα kinema ("movement, motion"), itself derived from κινεῖν kinein ("to move").
Kinematic and

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The velocity of a particle is a vector quantity that describes the magnitude as well as direction of motion of the particle. More mathematically, the

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It is often convenient to formulate the trajectory of a particle r(t) = (x(t), y(t), z(t)) using polar coordinates in the X–Y plane. In this case, its velocity

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If a rigid body moves so that its reference frame M does not rotate (θ = 0) relative to the fixed frame F, the motion is called pure translation. In this case, the trajectory of every point in the body is

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Rotational or angular kinematics is the description of the rotation of an object. In what follows, attention is restricted to simple rotation about an axis of fixed orientation. The z-axis has

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Kinematic constraints are constraints on the movement of components of a mechanical system. Kinematic constraints can be considered to have

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The movement of components of a mechanical system are analyzed by attaching a reference frame to each part and determining how the various reference frames move relative to

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