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What is Straight uniform motion?

Definition 6.6 High School Physics · Chapter 6 — Forces and the Principle of Inertia

A body is in straight uniform motion in a frame when its trajectory is a straight line traveled at constant speed: its velocity vector v\vect v is the same at every instant. Rest is the special case v=0\vect v = \vect 0.

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