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A holonomic constraint can be expressed as , rather than as a genuinely nonintegrable relation among velocities. A fixed rod length is an example. Rolling along a single straight incline also gives an integrable relation with the sign convention used below; arbitrary rolling in more dimensions need not be holonomic.

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