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eBook
Libre Text

Libre Texts: Physics: Frames of Reference and Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource featuring the Principle of Relativity. Discover what develops based on the premise of this principle.
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Website
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Fitzgerald Lorentz Contraction

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is plenty fascinating and detailed. Done by a space scientist at the University of Colorado, it provides neat animations and not enough text. Explore particularly the Space-Time Wheel.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Relativity Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Review your understanding of relativity with this study guide.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Fundamentals of Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a fundamentals of physics course taught at Yale University. The course is an introduction to physics and discusses Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravity, thermodynamics, and waves. Course...
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Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Matter and Energy United

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses the relation between matter and energy with attention given to Mass-energy, energy, and relativity.
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Website
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

La Ciencia Para Todos: Fisica

For Students 9th - 10th
In this site you will find several topics from Physics such as materials, steam machines, conservation, the concept of entropy, relativity and gravitation,
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: General Relativity Classical

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Visual simulation of the Newtonian orbit of an object around a mass includes a graph of the effective potential.
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Handout
Other

Great Thinkers and Visionaries: Books by Albert Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a comprehensive listing of over 50 books written by Einstein. Each has a link to Amazon, listing availability, cost, short synopsis.
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Article
Other

Uc Riverside: Can You See Lorentz Fitzgerald Contraction

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion from the University of California of the "reality" of the L-R contraction, approached by a device called the Penrose-Terrell Rotation. Interesting physics; takes plenty of concentration.
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Website
Treehut

Suzy's World: Black Holes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to find out what is a black hole in space and try an experiment.
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Website
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Theory of Relativity

For Students 3rd - 9th
Understand what relativity is and what Albert Einstein discovered while studying it. Identify special relativity and general relativity.
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Time Travel Kit

For Students 5th - 8th
Would you like to travel forward in time? Use this time travel kit to help you think through different ways to experience time travel. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.
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Article
Scientific American

Scientific American: Einstein's Hot Time

For Students 11th - 12th
This article, published by Scientific American (September 2002), re-publishes a short paper by Albert Einstein which "explains" relativity to the layman the pretty girl/hot stove abstract.
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Primary
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Albert Einstein Nobel Lecture on Theory of Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site download and read a lecture entitled "Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity," given by Albert Einstein during the Nobel Prize ceremonies when he was the laureate in physics. Available in PDF format.
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Website
BBC

Bbc Science & Nature: Black Holes and Time Travel

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes how black holes may provide clues to the possibility of time travel and parallel universes.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Relativity, 1953

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has several thumbnail images of Escher's artwork. Each can be clicked on and enlarged twice. Showcased are such popular pieces such as "Drawing Hands" and "Mobius Strip II."