The Rubidium Atomic Clock and Basic Research

by: James Camparo

Physics Today, Vol. 60, No. 11. (2007), pp. 33-39.

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Abstract

You're returning home from a conference, in a rental car on a dark, rainy road 50 miles from the airport; you're running out of time to catch your flight, and you're lost. As little as 10 years ago, this would have been the stuff of travel nightmares, to be shared with colleagues during a coffee break between conference sessions. Today it is less of a nightmare and more of an inconvenience. You pull your car to the side of the road, program your desired destination into the rental car's navigation system, and let it calculate a direct route to the airport from your present location using signals from orbiting GPS (global positioning system) satellites. Thankfully, you make it home without an exciting but harrowing story to tell family and friends.

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