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Chapter 3: Q.17CQ (page 120)

What frame or frames of reference do you instinctively use when driving a car? When flying in a commercial jet airplane?

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A frame of reference is a set of coordinates that we can use to determine the positions and the velocities of the object in that frame. Or, we can say that anything we can use to determine what is moving is known as the frame of reference.

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Defining frame of reference

A frame of reference is a collection of coordinates used to indicate the relationship between a moving observer and an event. The frame of reference is further classified as the inertial and the non-inertial frames of reference.

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Explaining when plane itself is frame of reference

The fixed frames while driving a car are trees, buildings, or anything that could be at rest. The two frames of reference could be the car and the ground.

When flying in a commercial jet airplane, the ground is often out of our sight unless it is landing or taking off; so the plane itself or the clouds become the frame of reference.

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