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 th...

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Published in:American journal of physics 2007-09, Vol.75 (9), p.791-798
Main Authors: Savage, C. M., Searle, A., McCalman, L.
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