Composition of a plane rotation and a reflection
ID: composition-of-a-plane-rotation-and-a-reflection
A planar rotation about a point on the axis of a Euclidean reflection, composed after that Euclidean reflection, is a Euclidean reflection whose axis has been rotated by half the rotation angle. In coordinates centred at the fixed point, with the original axis horizontal, write . ThenThis matrix fixes the direction and reverses its perpendicular direction. The axis is an unoriented line, so its angle is defined modulo .
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