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How does GPS work? 
  
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Publisher: Institute of Physics
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This article explains how the Global Positioning System works, including how a GPS receiver determines locations on Earth using satellite information, and how general and special…
http://web.archive.org/web/20200420125750/http://www.physics.org/article...
Einstein's Relativity and Everyday Life 
  
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This PhysicsCentral article, by Clifford Will of Washington University, discusses the importance of relativity for GPS. Both special and general relativity affect the accuracy of…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/writers/will.cfm
Relativity Powers Your Car Battery 
  
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This article in Physical Review Focus describes how most of the voltage from a lead-acid battery comes from relativistic effects in the lead atom. The article describes the…
https://physics.aps.org/story/v27/st2
Time Flies 
  
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This news article from the National Physical Laboratory describes how physicists updated an experimental test of special and general relativity by flying atomic clocks around the…
http://web.archive.org/web/20190303092231/https://www.npl.co.uk/news/tim...
Time Traveler 
  
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This NOVA website simulates travel to distant stars and back in a spaceship that can move at various percentages of the speed of light. You set the spaceship speed and choose your…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/
Particles break light-speed limit 
  
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This Nature News article describes the evidence for particles--neutrinos--traveling faster than light. The article describes the consequences of this discovery and outlines the…
https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110922/full/news.2011.554.html
Through Einstein's Eyes Online - Visualizing Special Relativity 
  
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Visit Through Einstein's Eyes for a simulation of what you would see if travel were possible at light speed. You can take a roller coaster ride, observe a tram moving near the speed…
http://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~cms130/TEE/
A. Einstein - Image and Impact 
  
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This online exhibit on the life of Albert Einstein takes a somewhat less orthodox approach. How did an ordinary patent clerk with an undistinguished college record evolve into one of…
https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/einstein/
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: Michelson, Morley and the speed of 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/jw/module3_is_it_true.htm