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Doesn't this just prove that Newton's First Law is not, in fact, equivalent to the claim that "in the absence of a net external force, a body is unaccelerated"?

(There's also the question of whether r(t) in (3) is differentiable at t=T, right?)



There is an external force here: gravity.


Yes, hence the two not being the same - there is no net force.




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