Re: Center-of-mass system

[Melegari Gianni <g.melegari@RS.RSADVNET.IT>]

At 09.56 13/04/00 -0500, you wrote:
>        Checking with other faculty I found two other young faculty who liked
> "center-of-momentum system" and preferred it, telling me it was common,

The terminology "center-of-momentum frame" is used by E.F. Taylor and J.A.
Wheeler in the text _Spacetime Physics_, second ed., W.H. Freeman and
Company, New York 1992, pages 246-251. They discuss and explain the meaning
of the locution.

Greetings

        Gianni Melegari

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