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Galilean transformation

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A Galilean transformation is a change of coordinates between two inertial frames in Newtonian mechanics. It combines a shift of time, a shift and a rotation of space, and a uniform motion of one frame relative to the other. Galilean transformations form a group, the Galilean group, which is the symmetry group of Newtonian space and time. They preserve time differences and the distances between simultaneous events.

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