Conventions and inertial reference frames
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- May 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.1858446
- Bibcode:
- 2005AmJPh..73..452M
- Keywords:
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- 01.50.-i;
- 03.30.+p;
- 01.65.+g;
- Educational aids;
- Special relativity;
- History of science