Class practical: Practice in estimating time and measuring time.
Practical Activity 14-16
Physics is all about noticing, and then reusing, common patterns. You got a handle on velocity–time graphs by thinking about...
Physics Narrative 14-16
The time-travelling astronaut: Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev holds the record for time spent in orbit around the Earth...
Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16
The Isochronic map: In 1883, Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, developed an ‘Isochronic Passage Chart for Travellers’...
The length of the day has not been constant throughout the Earth’s history. For the last 2,700 years, the length of a day has...
What is possibly the world’s longest running science experiment was set up at the University of Queensland, Australia in 1927...
In the 1850s, the expansion of the rail network emphasised differences in local times across the UK. For example, it was noted...
One of the best-known tests of the time dilation prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity was the Hafele-Keating...
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