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On Newtonian Frames of Reference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

W.H. McCrea
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A paradox connected with the idea of a uniform field of force is recalled. The main purpose is to discuss frames of reference in the gravitational fields of systems originally studied by Milne and McCrea in developing their “newtonian cosmology” It is shown that a frame moving with any particle of the material of such a system serves as a newtonian frame for the description of mechanical phenomena throughout a region that may be taken to be arbitrarily large and that a frame of such a sort is the nearest approach possible in the system to the realization of a local newtonian frame ; any two such frames are nevertheless in mutually accelerated motion.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 39 , Issue 330 , December 1955, pp. 287 - 291
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1955

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