Questions tagged [inertial-frames]

Landau writes "It is found, however, that a frame of reference can always be chosen in which space is homogeneous and isotropic and time is homogeneous." Does he mean that we can prove the existence of an inertial frame or does he want to say that…

I was asked to find the condition(velocity ) for which the net inertial force with respect to earth acting on a body moving at fixed latitude to be 0. Firstly I thought the coriolis force must be made 0 by moving it along the parallels of…

Wikipedia has a example of a equatorial train in its article on Coriolis Force: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force In this example, a frictionless train is located on the equator, and can either stay still, travel at earth rate east (with…

From the perspective of sun, is the moon orbiting the earth considered a single inertial frame or are moon and earth separate inertial frames? Or am I missing something completely fundamental?