inertial frame


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inertial frame

(i-ner -shăl) A frame of reference in which an isolated particle placed at rest will remain at rest, and one in uniform motion will maintain a constant velocity. It is thus a frame of reference that is not subject to acceleration, as from a gravitational field, and in which Newton's first law of motion applies. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, which is concerned only with inertial frames, all laws of physics are the same in every inertial frame.
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