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Relation between work in two inertial frames

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Reginald Koo
Reginald Koo*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of South Carolina Aiken, South Carolina, USA
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In classical dynamics, Newton’s laws hold in all inertial frames. In particular, the work done by a force along the path traversed by a particle equals the change in kinetic energy of the particle. However, velocities and paths are frame dependent. Thus we investigate the work of a force in two inertial frames. We see that work is frame dependent. Furthermore, we determine the relation between work in two inertial frames.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 93 , Issue 527 , July 2009 , pp. 213 - 221
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2009

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