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Classical Mechanics
Level
3
How many possible inertial reference frames are there?
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4
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Infinity
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1 solution
2 inertial frames are related to each other ,by a velocity addition/subtraction Since the magnitude can be varied in infinitely many ways we easily see that there must exist infinitely many reference frames