Conventions and inertial reference frames

Name: Conventions and inertial reference frames
Creator: Alberto A. Martínez
Keywords: 0103 physical sciences, 06 humanities and the arts, 0603 philosophy, ethics and religion, 01 natural sciences

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 13 Apr 2005 English Publisher:American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)Journal:American Journal of Physics, volume 73, pages 452-454 (issn: 0002-9505, eissn: 1943-2909,

Authors: Alberto A. Martínez;

doi: 10.1119/1.1858446

Conventions and inertial reference frames

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This article discusses the role of conventions in defining the concept of inertial reference frame, and it specifies key historical evidence, up to now widely ignored, connecting Poincaré, Einstein, and Reichenbach’s analyses of simultaneity.

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