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Simultaneity Spacetime Diagram Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Simultaneity Spacetime Diagram model uses light-trajectories to show the effect of relative motion when observing (recording) events in special relativity. In the default…
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Einstein's Relativity and Everyday Life 
  
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This PhysicsCentral article discusses the importance of relativity for GPS. Both special and general relativity affect the accuracy of GPS, and without correcting for relativistic…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/writers/will.cfm
Special Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper Model displays Minkowski spacetime diagrams on rotated graph paper.  The worldlines of three inertial observers carrying horizontal light clocks…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11540&DocID=24...
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Alternative Conceptions in Galilean Relativity: Inertial and Non-Inertial Observers 
  
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J. Ramadas, S. Barve, and A. Kumar, Int. J. Sci. Educ., 18 (5), 615-629.
This is one in a series of three papers in which undergraduate students in India were asked questions about transformations between different frames. Both kinematical and dynamical…
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950069960180509
The Light Cone: an illuminating introduction to relativity 
  
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This web site contains a detailed introduction to relativity. It integrates textual explanations of relativity concepts with diagrams and animations to clarify the material. It…
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History of Special Relativity 
  
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A timeline of the major developments in relativity. It starts with Galilean Relativity via Newton and ends with General Relativity.
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http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/relativity/history-1.html
Galilean Relativity 
  
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This is an article on the Galilean interpretation of relativity. The article emphasizes that velocity is only relevant when measured with respect to something else and also continues…
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https://physics.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node47.html
Einstein Light: Inertial frames and Newtonian mechanics 
  
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This web page describes inertial and non-inertial frames of reference, the latter being frames where Newton's laws do not hold. The text explains "fictitious forces", the centrifugal…
http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/jw/module1_Inertial.htm
Einstein Light 
  
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This web site is a basic, non-mathematical introduction to relativity. It covers concepts from Galileo, Newton, and Maxwell through Einstein and special relativity. The site also…
http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/
Einstein Light: Galilean Relativity and Newtonian Mechanics 
  
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This animated tutorial, part of the Einstein Light website, presents the concept of relativity from a situation inspired by Galileo (an inertial reference frame). It shows the motion…
http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/jw/module1_Galileo_and_Newton...
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