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When we discussed Newton’s laws of motion, we were careful to note that they only held under restricted conditions. All motions had to be described with respect to inertial frames of reference—frames at rest or moved at constant velocity with respect to the mean motion of ambient galaxies.
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Harwit, M. (1988). Photons and Fast Particles. In: Astrophysical Concepts. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2019-8_5
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