A system that uses coordinates to establish position.
1Recall that motion is meaningful only relative to a given reference frame.
2A rotating reference frame like this is called an accelerated or non-inertial frame.
3That's because the camera is in an accelerating reference frame of the plane.
4Our ideas about forces and motion, however, only work in a non-accelerating reference frame.
5In Starbuck's reference frame, it is Apollo who is approaching.
6The fake force allows a rotating reference frame to act like a stationary one.
7Perhaps, then, we need to look outside of our Galaxy for a fixed reference frame.
8Doesn't that imply that there's a preferred reference frame?
9Of course, if you move in a circle you aren't exactly in a non-accelerating reference frame.
10Looking from inside the Millennium Falcon as it accelerates is clearly accelerating (non-inertial reference frame).
11In a reference frame moving along with Supergirl, three days elapse as she chases after the missile.
12How high will it go in the elevator (in the reference frame of the elevator)?
13If you could view yourself from outside the car in a stationary reference frame, everything would make sense.
14Just to be clear, a faux force is needed to use normal newtonian mechanics when the reference frame is accelerating.
15Well, it works if you measure the acceleration from a stationary (technically at least a non-accelerating) reference frame.
16The objects were surrounded by scenes with an apparent axis of the global reference frame, such as a sidewalk scene.
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