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Instantaneous rest frame

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An inertial frame in which a selected body's velocity vanishes at one event on its worldline. For an accelerated body it is a local construction: rest frames at different events need not coincide, and simultaneity slices chosen at one event do not equal laboratory equal-time slices.

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