reference frame
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In the electron's reference frame, the laser intensity appeared to be about 50% of the Schwinger limit, triggering nonlinear QED phenomena.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
However, the notion of continental groupings as a meaningful reference frame for understanding human biological variation persisted.
From Scientific American • Dec. 22, 2022
The effect that the chosen reference frame has on your observations is substantial, and an understanding of this is needed to grasp both Enduring Understanding 3.A and Essential Knowledge 3.A.1.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
To describe the position of a person in an airplane, for example, we use the airplane, not the Earth, as the reference frame.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
In our reference frame, the vessel had put on an incredible velocity, and covered the nine-hundred-odd light-years around Rigel in six months.
From Out Around Rigel by Wilson, Robert H.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
