Degrees of freedom
In many scientific fields, the degrees of freedom of a system is the number of
coordinates; a non-infinitesimal object on the plane might have additional degrees of freedoms related to its orientation
.
In
dimension of a manifold or an algebraic variety
. When degrees of freedom is used instead of dimension, this usually means that the manifold or variety that models the system is only implicitly defined.
See:
- Degrees of freedom (mechanics), number of independent motions that are allowed to the body or, in case of a mechanism made of several bodies, number of possible independent relative motions between the pieces of the mechanism
- Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry), a term used in explaining dependence on parameters, or the dimensions of a phase space
- Degrees of freedom (statistics), the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary
- Degrees of freedom problem, the problem of controlling motor movement given abundant degrees of freedom
See also
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