Rotation Conventions

I once found this university handout (cached here), which makes the very interesting and useful claim that the roll-pitch-yaw angles, which denote rotation about the static axes X, Y, Z, are equivalent to the euler ZYX angles, which denote rotation about the Z axis, then the rotated Y, and the rotated X axes.

I cannot find this factoid anywhere else, thus I am storing it here.



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