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Virtual displacement
In analytical mechanics the concept of a virtual displacement, related to the concept of virtual work, is meaningful only when discussing a physical system subject to constraints on its motion. A special case of an infinitesimal displacement (usually notated dvec{x}), a virtual displacement (notated delta vec{x}) refers to an infinitesimal change in the position coordinates of a system such that the constraints remain satisfied.
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