Definition: Inertial and Noninertial Frames of Reference
Let \(\mathcal R=(\mathbb R,V_{\mathbb R},v)\) be the \(3\)-dimensional affine space with the associated normed vector space \((V_{\mathbb R},||~||)\) over the field of real numbers \(\mathbb R\). Let a frame of reference \(\mathcal I\subset \mathcal R\) contain a massive body \(B\) and let the measurement of its mass be \(m_0\). The frame of reference \(\mathcal I\) is called
- inertial, if consecutive measurements \(i=1,2,\ldots\) of the mass of \(B\) will produce a sequence of measurement values \((m_i)_{n\in\mathbb N}\) deviating from \(m_0\) by less than a fixed (and for the observer negligible error) \(\epsilon > 0\):
\[|m_0-m_i| < \epsilon\quad i=1,2,\ldots,\]
- otherwise \(I\) is called non-inertial, i.e. at least one measurement value \(m_j\) will deviate from the error
\[\exists j \ge 1~:~|m_0-m_j|\ge \epsilon.\]
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- Piotrowski, Andreas: Own Research, 2014
