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In physics, a translation is the operation changing the positions of all objects according to the formula

where is a constant vector. Such an operation can be generalized to other coordinates, for example the time coordinate.

Because of Noether's theorem, the translational symmetry is equivalent to momentum conservation.

See also


Classical mechanics

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