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Fact sheets (posters)
These fact sheets, from the National Physical Laboratory, are ideal posters for the classroom. They include illustrations and images to accompany the text. The following curriculum areas are covered:
- Acoustics: sound, frequency and ultrasound
- Einstein: relativity, mass energy relation and speed
- Ionising radiation: electromagnetic spectrum, radiation doses
- Atomic timekeeping: atomic and quantum theory
- History of length: distance
- Units of measurement: SI units of second, metre, kilogram, ampere, mole, candela and kelvin
- Colour: adding and subtracting colour, spectral colours
- Traceability: uncertainty, accuracy, precision, error
- Length: interferometry, wavelength
- Light: power, watt
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Acoustics (poster) 1.18 MB
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Einstein (poster) 5.27 MB
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Ionising gradiation (poster) 821.86 KB
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Atomic timekeeping (poster) 841.7 KB
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History of length (poster) 1.23 MB
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Units of measurement (poster) 2.07 MB
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Colour (poster) 2.2 MB
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Traceability (poster) 2.05 MB
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Length (poster) 2.52 MB
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Light (poster) 937.82 KB
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