An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy levels. Electron...
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quartz clocks and watches. Currently, atomic clocks are the most accurate clocks in existence. They are considerably more accurate than quartz clocks as they...
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This is a list of some experimental laboratory atomic clocks worldwide. "Seit wann läuft die erste Atomuhr in der PTB?". Themenrundgänge / Fragen zur...
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An atomic clock is a time keeping device. Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space science project a clock updated by radio signals which is sometimes called an...
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Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
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Second (redirect from 9192631770 cycles of a Caesium atomic clock)
count seconds accurately were pendulum clocks invented in the 17th century. Starting in the 1950s, atomic clocks became better timekeepers than Earth's...
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A chip scale atomic clock (CSAC) is a compact, low-power atomic clock fabricated using techniques of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and incorporating...
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Earth's geoid. TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic clocks in over 80 national laboratories worldwide. It is a continuous scale...
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frequency, in the same manner as an atomic clock uses the frequency of an electronic transition in an atom's shell. Such a clock is expected to be more accurate...
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The Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) was a miniaturized, ultra-precise mercury-ion atomic clock for precise radio navigation in deep space. DSAC was designed...
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Rubidium standard (redirect from Rubidium atomic clock)
A rubidium standard or rubidium atomic clock is a frequency standard in which a specified hyperfine transition of electrons in rubidium-87 atoms is used...
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mechanical clock. Hence most everyday quartz clocks do not have an adjustable drift correction. Atomic clocks are very precise and have nearly no clock drift...
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The Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space or PARCS was an atomic-clock mission scheduled to fly on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008, but...
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History of timekeeping devices (redirect from History of clocks)
practical use today are atomic clocks, which can be accurate to a few billionths of a second per year and are used to calibrate other clocks and timekeeping instruments...
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radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC), and often colloquially (and incorrectly) referred to as an "atomic clock", is a type of quartz clock or watch...
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space-qualified Indian made atomic clocks was initiated, along with a study and development initiative for an all optical atomic clock (ultra stable for IRNSS...
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International Atomic Time (TAI) are also used alongside UTC. UTC is based on TAI, which is a weighted average of hundreds of atomic clocks worldwide. UTC...
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Time dilation (redirect from Clock hypothesis)
flew caesium atomic clocks east and west around the Earth in commercial airliners, to compare the elapsed time against that of a clock that remained...
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Caesium standard (redirect from Caesium atomic clock)
Gernot M. R. Winkler of the United States Naval Observatory. Caesium atomic clocks are one of the most accurate time and frequency standards, and serve...
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caesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world, first eastward, then westward, and compared the clocks in motion...
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Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) is a project led by the European Space Agency which will place ultra-stable atomic clocks on the International Space...
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settings atomic clocks had replaced quartz clocks as the basis for precision measurements of time and frequency, resulting in International Atomic Time....
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destruction that atomic war could bring about. To convey the particular peril posed by nuclear weapons, the Bulletin devised the Doomsday Clock in 1947, with...
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History of watches (section Clock-watch)
133 Atomic Watch the first watch to keep time with an internal atomic clock. Unlike the radio watches described above, which achieve atomic clock accuracy...
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NIST-F1 (redirect from American Atomic Clock)
NIST-F1 is a cesium fountain clock, a type of atomic clock, in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, and serves...
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JJY (redirect from Japanese Atomic Clock)
atomic clock in Tokyo. This information is sent to the transmitter stations and is used to set a caesium atomic clock at each station. These clocks are...
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Dick effect (category Atomic clocks)
limitation to frequency stability for modern atomic clocks such as atomic fountains and optical lattice clocks. It is an aliasing effect: High frequency...
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cesium-beam atomic clocks were flown around the world and the expected differences were found compared to a stationary clock. The clock hypothesis states...
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governed by primary reference atomic clocks in many countries. A modern, atomic version of a master clock is the large clock ensemble found at the U.S. Naval...
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navigation, the classic task of a chronometer. In 2011, chip-scale atomic clocks became available. Although vastly more expensive and power-hungry (120 mW...
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