Timeline for What does "inertial" refer to in "inertial reference"?
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| Mar 8, 2021 at 22:30 | comment | added | mins | You must be right, I'm not familiar with general relativity and a bit confused with the difference (that I understand now doesn't exist) between inertial and gravitational accelerations. All that seems to be an old story of classical mechanics. | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 21:15 | comment | added | Jpe61 | Might be worth mentioning laser gyroscopes in ADIRUs do not use the gyroscopic effect to detect rotation. | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 19:38 | history | edited | Jan Hudec | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2021 at 19:34 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | @mins, the sum of inertial forces it measures is called g-force. It includes gravity. According to the principle of relativity, gravity is an inertial force. In standard English terminology, “gravity” also somewhat confusingly includes centrifugal force due to Earth rotation, another inertial force. In other words, it is not force due to gravitation, it is the g-force in Earth reference frame. But either way it is inertial. | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 18:25 | comment | added | mins | +1, but "the measured forces include gravity" should refer to the g-force actually not to gravity which is not inertial :-) | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 19:29 | history | answered | Jan Hudec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |