Relativity

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    • 25 pages found in Relativity:

    Are There Any Good Books on Relativity Theory?
    The Physics FAQ's guide to relativity books; by Chris Hillman (with contributions by Nathan Urban). An extensive annotated list of semi-popular books, textbooks and background reading.
    http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/rel_booklist.html

    Beyond Einstein
    Description of NASA's Beyond Einstein missions set to explore various consequences of general relativity - and possibly, as the name indicate, go beyond what Einstein's theory predicts. Includes educational resources.
    http://universe.nasa.gov/

    Cambridge Relativity Public Home Page
    Various pages with non-technical texts about cosmology, black holes, cosmic strings, inflation, quantum cosmology, and string theory, written by members of the Relativity Group at Cambridge University.
    http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/

    Einstein Online
    Information about Einstein's theories of special and general relativity and their applications; site is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. Includes a simple introduction, a collection of articles ("Spotlights on relativity"), and a relativistic dictionary.
    http://www.einstein-online.info/en

    An Essay on General Relativity
    Overview of the basic ideas and principal applications of general relativity. Written by John L. Safko for students in the self-paced astronomy courses at the University of South Carolina in 1997.
    http://astro.physics.sc.edu/selfpacedunits/Unit57.html

    Interactive Experiments in Gravity
    Try an experiment that illustrates the gravitational attraction between two objects or use a Java applet to understand how orbits work in strongly curved space-time.
    http://www.fourmilab.ch/gravitation/

    Interactive Geometric Database
    Interactive database developed by Mustapha Ishak and Kayll Lake and hosted by Queen's University; allows the user to search for specific solutions of Einstein's field equations (that is, for specific model universes of general relativity).
    http://130.15.26.66/servlet/GRDB2.GRDBServlet

    Introduction to General Relativity
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht University); based on lectures held in 2002; a thorough introduction starting with accelerated frames and including topics such as black holes, the basics of cosmology, and gravitational radiation.
    http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/lectures/gr.html

    The Light Cone: An Illuminating Introduction to Relativity
    Introduces the basic principles of relativity, the physics of special relativity, and some basic principles of general relativity. Contains a great number of helpful images and animations; site created by Rob Salgado (Syracuse University).
    http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/

    NOVA Online/Einstein Revealed
    Profile of Albert Einstein, with additional teaching resources, Shockwave demonstrations, and animations of relativity concepts.
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/

    Physics Bookshelf - Relativity
    A collection of articles about relativity
    http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Relativity.html

    QMW Hyperspace
    A set of hypertext based services for general relativity research provided by the QMW Relativity group.
    http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/hyperspace/

    Relativity
    Provides information on the history, experiments and paradoxes of relativity.
    http://nobelprize.org/physics/educational/relativity/

    Relativity bookmarks
    Large collection of relativity-related links by Rob Salgado (Syracuse University). Warning: page hasn't been updated since 2000, and quite a number of links are now broken.
    http://physics.syr.edu/research/relativity/RELATIVITY.html

    Relativity: List of Important Equations
    Page scans from the Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics giving equations and formulas for special relativity and relativistic cosmology. Includes bibliography.
    http://ads.harvard.edu/books/hsaa/chap10.html

    Relativity, Space and Time
    Science popularization article on the Theory of Relativity.
    http://pgostrov.googlepages.com/e2.html

    Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological
    Sample chapters from the classical textbook by Wolfgang Rindler, as part of a "limited preview" on Google Books.
    http://books.google.com/books?id=fUj_LW51GfQC

    Selected References in Relativistic Cosmology and General Relativity
    Extensive list of classic and modern research papers in cosmology and general relativity. Although the author warns that his selection is subjective, the result is a highly useful list of references; for many papers, there are links to online versions on the arXiv.org e-print server. By Henk van Elst (Queen Mary, University of London).
    http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~webpages/henk/paplist.html

    Spacetime - General Relativity, Quantum Gravity, and the Existence of Time
    A brief summary of Spacetime Theories at the beginning of the Third Millennium, and of the possibility that we live in an essentially atemporal universe.
    http://www.ws5.com/spacetime/

    Wikipedia: General Relativity Resources
    Annotated list of reading material about general relativity: popular books, textbooks, books on specific topics, web courses, and websites.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_resources

    Wikipedia: Introduction to General Relativity
    Encyclopedia article explaining the basic concepts, observational tests and (astrophysical) applications of general relativity.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_general_relativity

    General Relativity Simulation Contest
    Attempt at a content aimed at the Internet community to write a simulation program, based on a simple algorithm incorporating the laws of general relativity, that can realistically simulate the behavior of black holes, binary stars, and the twin paradox. <small>(December 28, 2005)</small>
    http://users.telenet.be/nicvroom/contest.htm

    Numerical Relativity: Status and Prospects
    Review article by Luis Lehner about the foundations of numerical relativity and recent progress in the field; particular attention is paid to simulations of black hole spacetimes. <small>(February 19, 2002)</small>
    http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0202055

    Subtle is the Gravity
    Review of the motivations for and basic principles of general relativity, aimed at a general audience. Written by Naresh Dadhich (IUCAA Pune), based on a lecture delivered in 2001. <small>(February 3, 2001)</small>
    http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0102009

    Gravitational Waves and Black Holes: An Introduction to General Relativity
    An introduction by Jan-Willem van Holten (NIKHEF, Amsterdam), based on lectures given at the University of Heidelberg in 1997. <small>(April 15, 1997)</small>
    http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704043

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