Nobel Foundation: Relativity

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This web site from the Nobel Foundation contains a number of short pages about relativity. Included are The Michelson-Morley Experiment, Postulates of Special Relativity, Lorentz Transformations, The Twin Paradox, a historical timeline, and two sections dedicated to show how Special Relativity can be a tool for science.

http://web.archive.org/web/20151002203132/http://www.nobelprize.or...

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Relativity - History - Special Relativity	- Informal Education - High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Tutorial - Reference Material

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Keywords:: Special Relativity, Twin Paradox, relativity, time dilation
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created April 29, 2007 by Enrique Suarez
Record Updated:: August 21, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 30, 2007
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