Viewing Correction to 'reference frames in newtonian physics'

Replace the definition involving "all objects"

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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