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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inertiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newton%27s_laws_of_motionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newton%27s_laws_of_motionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Classical_mechanicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Invariant_%28physics%29http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galilean_transformationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geocentric_modelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frame_of_referencehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Accelerationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gravitational_fieldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_relativity

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_Penrosehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hermann_Minkowskihttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclidean_geometryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclidean_geometryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclidean_spacehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pythagorean_theoremhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cartesian_coordinate_systemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lengthhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclidean_spacehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spacetimehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ARelpythag.gif

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metric_tensorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metric_%28mathematics%29http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speed_of_lighthttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dimensional_analysishttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclidean_spacehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_linehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minkowski_space

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schr%C3%B6dinger_equationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lorentz_transformationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minkowski_diagramhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Velocityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirac%27s_equationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dirac%27s_equationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxwell%27s_equationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galilean_transformationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lorentz_transformationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lorentz_transformations

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