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IN the treatment of problems involving rotating coordinate frames one of two types of viewpoint is conventionally adopted. The assumption may either be made that the use of principles familiar in special relativity can be extended to the rotating coordinate case, or a general-relativistic treatment may be used, with use of an explicit coordinate transformation for uniform rotation in going from the inertial frame to the rotating frame.
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ATWATER, H. Transformation to Rotating Coordinates. Nature 228, 272–273 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228272a0
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