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Video Gallery: Special Relativity and the Exploration of the Evolution of Matter
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
This online video gallery is from the Museum's Seminars on Science, a series of distance-learning courses designed to help educators meet the new national science standards. Part of the Frontiers in Physical Science seminar, the gallery features three videos, available in broadband and modem formats and with a printable PDF transcript. Brookhaven: RHIC shows the pipes where the actual collisions occur in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Brookhaven: RHIC, part 2 shows a cut-away view of the end of one of the RHIC super-conducting dipoles. Brookhaven: STAR AND PHENIX shows the Solonoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) and explains the PHENIX experiment.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Secondary, Post-secondary
- Collection:
- American Museum of Natural History