Transformações Geométricas no Plano e no Espaço

Abstract

Abstract: In this work we study some geometric transformations in the plane and the space. Initially, we present some special types of transformations in the plane and find the matrix of each of these transformations. In the second part we discourse the transformations in the space, emphasizing the rotations. We will use the angles of Euler to determine a rotation in the space around the Cartesian axes and define an equation which allows to rotate a vector around any axis. We also discuss the homogeneous spaces aiming the matrix representation of transformations of translation. Finally, we use the structure of the quaternions group to present a second form to rotation vectors and composition of rotations in the space. We emphasize that this study is essential to describe the motion of objects in the plane and in the space.