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Galilean invariance

Overview

principle in classical mechanics stating that the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames

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Related ideas

• Momentum
• Special relativity
• Galileo Galilei
• Oxford University Press
• Newton's laws of motion
• Absolute space and time

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Part of Deductive-nomological model.

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