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frames of reference

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Frames of Reference

Frames of Reference is a 1960 educational film by Physical Sciences Study Committee.

The film was made to be shown in high school physics courses. In the film, University of Toronto physics professors Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey explain the distinction between inertial and noninertial frames of reference, while demonstrating these concepts through humorous camera tricks. For example, the film opens with Dr. Hume, who appears to be upside down, accusing Dr. Ivey of being upside down. Only when the pair flip a coin does it become obvious that Dr. Ivey — and the camera — are indeed inverted.

The film's humor serves both to hold students' interest and to demonstrate the concepts being discussed.

Usage examples of "frames of reference".

Even more seriously, all the astronomical frames of reference were gone.

Stardates aside, time really is relative to different inertial frames of reference.

It was sometimes unsettling to discover the lack of frames of reference when talking to the woman who had, after all, grown up normally.

For one thing, he would need to leam more about the General's frames of reference, so as to devise an approach that would make sense to the man.

In their own frames of reference, the holes are obeying the rules.

All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

He experienced a host of exotic stimuli, memories of places he had never seen, knowledge he had not gained, new situations alien to his frames of reference—.

But in order to explain my position, I have to refer it to your customary frames of reference.

Labels--based on utterly abysmal damned dumb ignorance of our own basic frames of reference.