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What does it mean to be a Rigid Motion?
Name 3 Rigid Motions that we discussed in Semester A:​

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A Rigid Motion is a transformation that preserves length (distance preserving) and angle measure (angle preserving). Another name for a rigid motion is an isometry. A direct isometry preserves distance and orientation. Translations and Rotations are direct isometries.

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