Galilean transformation

For inertial frames with relative velocity

u

along the

x

-axis, the Galilean transformation is

t^{'} = t, x^{'} = x - u t .

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Principle of Galilean relativity

The laws of Newtonian mechanics have the same form in every inertial frame related by a Galilean transformation.

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