Ri Archives | Pasadena Rubidium Clock @RiArchives | Uploaded October 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A short animated film showing the electrical flow within a Rubidium Clock. A Rubidium Clock or rubidium standard is a frequency standard in which a specified hyperfine transition of electrons in rubidium-87 atoms is used to control an output frequency. It is the most inexpensive, compact, and widely used type of atomic clock, used to control everything from television stations, stat nav stations and GPS. It is likely that this is an excerpt from a longer film explaining the principles behind atomic clocks, how they work and why they are important.

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