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Reference frames
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- Summary
- Three cameras film a moving object. The selected camera is flashing.
This animation illustrates the terms inertia frame of reference, local frame of reference and Galilean Relativity.
- Learning objectives
- To distinguish an inertial frame from a laboratory frame
- To introduce the notion of Galilean Relativity.
- How to use the animation
Click on a screen to select a camera.
Click on
to play the movie and 
to stop.
- Keywords
- cyclist, referential, reference, coordinate, inertial, galilean, cue, translation, frame, velocity, relativity, trajectory,
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