Frame of reference is a term used in many academic contexts. For example, movies, books, history, psychology, and sociology. The best way I can explain it is to say that frame of reference is similar to "point of view" or "perspective."
Frame of reference includes everything that has made the individual what he/she is (childhood, education, experiences, etc.). The individual sees everything from that reality. One person's reality may be very different from another's reality. Hence, they will have very different frames of reference.
A frame of reference determines how we see things/events.
Frame of reference is very evident in politics. Some political figures cannot even imagine how people who don't agree with him/her look at issues.
2007-02-07 05:59:19
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Frame Of Reference
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Creative? Non-inertial reference frame: A reference frame pinned to the body of a fly in motion. A point on the trailing edge of a flag in the wind. The read head of your disk drive while accessing a file. Your teacher's chair. (It's moving in a big circle that takes about 24 hours to complete.) Inertial reference frame (these are more boring): A spaceship coasting in outer space away from the influence of gravity. Any point traveling in a straight line at constant speed.
2016-04-01 08:34:57
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For a simple example, consider two people standing, facing each other on either side of a North-South street. A car drives past them heading South. For the person facing East, the car was moving toward the right. However, for the person facing West, the car was moving toward the left. This discrepancy is due to the fact that the two people used two different frames of reference from which to investigate this system.
2007-02-07 05:56:30
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2015-08-13 09:23:05
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For a simple example, consider two people standing, facing each other on either side of a North-South street. A car drives past them heading South. For the person facing East, the car was moving toward the right. However, for the person facing West, the car was moving toward the left. This discrepancy is due to the fact that the two people used two different frames of reference from which to investigate this system.
For a more complex example, consider Alfred, who is standing on the side of a road watching a car drive past him from left to right. In his frame of reference, Alfred defines the spot where he is standing as the origin, the road as the x-axis and the direction in front of him as the positive y-axis. To him, the car moves along the x axis with some velocity v in the positive x-direction. Alfred's frame of reference is considered an inertial frame of reference because he is not accelerating (ignoring effects such as Earth's rotation and gravity).
Now consider Betsy, the person driving the car. Betsy, in choosing her frame of reference, defines her location as the origin, the direction to her right as the positive x-axis, and the direction in front of her as the positive y-axis. In this frame of reference, it is Betsy who is stationary and the world around her that is moving - for instance, as she drives past Alfred, she observes him moving with velocity v in the negative y-direction. If she is driving north, then north is the positive y-direction; if she turns east, east becomes the positive y-direction.
Now assume Candace is driving her car in the opposite direction. As she passes by him, Alfred measures her acceleration and finds it to be a in the negative x-direction. Assuming Candace's acceleration is constant, what acceleration does Betsy measure? If Betsy's velocity v is constant, she is in an inertial frame of reference, and she will find the acceleration to be the same - in her frame of reference, a in the negative y-direction. However, if she is accelerating at rate A in the negative y-direction (in other words, slowing down), she will find Candace's acceleration to be a' = a - A in the negative y-direction - a smaller value than Alfred has measured. Similarly, if she is accelerating at rate A in the positive y-direction (speeding up), she will observe Candace's acceleration as a' = a + A in the negative y-direction - a larger value than Alfred's measurement.
Frames of reference are especially important in special relativity, because when a frame of reference is moving at some significant fraction of the speed of light, then the flow of time in that frame does not necessarily apply in another reference frame. The speed of light is considered to be the only true constant between moving frames of reference.
2007-02-07 05:49:55
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answered by cdmarshbu 2
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you have a student that loves .... say - basketball, but this student is not following the rules or directions in the classroom.
you create a frame of reference by pointing out that skill level in basketball is only demonstrated as one 'follows the rules and directions' ..... Sooooo the same as basketball, in order to be fully successful in class they need to follow the rules and directions.
you have a person that does not understand hypothermia.... so you use a bucket of icewater and have them put their hand / foot into it for a long time.
you pull pictures up from the internet of an island to explain the dynamics of being the victim of a shipwreck in the 1800's
... i hope these help
2007-02-07 05:57:57
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A car driving and a sign in the ground on the side of the road
2014-01-23 07:09:37
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answered by Anonymous
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how you see things I guess.
2014-09-10 06:30:48
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