Real Time Relativity: Exploratory learning of special relativity
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Real Time Relativity: Exploratory learning of special relativity
“Real Time Relativity” is a computer program that lets users move at relativistic speeds through a simulated world populated with planets, clocks, and buildings. The counterintuitive and spectacular optical effects of relativity are prominent, while systematic exploration of the simulation allows the user to discover relativistic effects such as length contraction and the relativity of simultan...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0002-9505,1943-2909
DOI: 10.1119/1.2744048