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[parent] Viewing Correction to 'reference frames in newtonian physics'
Replace the definition involving "all objects" by bloftin

Correction id: 89
Filed on: 2026-09-26 04:33:49
Status: Pending
Type: Meta/Minor

Correction text:

The statement that an inertial frame "moves with constant velocity relative to all objects that are not subject to a net force" is awkward and unnecessarily circular.

Recommended statement:

If S is an inertial frame, then every frame S' whose origin moves with constant velocity and whose axes remain nonrotating relative to S is also inertial in Newtonian mechanics.
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