INVESTIGADORES
SOLARI Hernan Gustavo
artículos
Título:
On the relation of free bodies, inertial sets and arbitrariness
Autor/es:
H G SOLARI; M A NATIELLO
Revista:
Science & Philosophy
Editorial:
Science & Philosophy
Referencias:
Año: 2021 vol. 9 p. 7 - 26
ISSN:
2282-7757
Resumen:
We present a fully relational definition of inertial systems based inthe No Arbitrariness Principle, that eliminates the need for absoluteinertial frames of reference or distinguished reference systems as thefixed stars in order to formulate Newtonian mechanics. The histor-ical roots of this approach to mechanics are discussed as well. Thework is based in part in the constructivist perspective of space ad-vanced by Piaget. We argue that inertial systems admit approxima-tions and that what is of practical use are precisely such approxima-tions. We finally discuss a slightly larger class of systems that we callrelatively inertial which are the fundamental systems in a relationalview of mechanics.
