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Classical and relativistic forces of inertia

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It is shown that — in contrast to the classical physics and special relativity — the self-consistency of general relativity requires that the forces of inertia follow unambiguously from the field equations as inductive gravitational effects of the cosmic matter and that this requirement is perfectly satisfied, without supplementary hypotheses, for the Einstein universe, in full agreement with Mach's principle.

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  1. Department of Physics, Czech Technical University, Prague, Technická 4, Praha 6, Czechoslovakia

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Horák, Z. Classical and relativistic forces of inertia. Czech J Phys 20, 1194–1208 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01698495

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