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  •   25 pages found in Relativity:

    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/

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

    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/

    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

    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

    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

    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

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

    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

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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/

    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/

    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/

    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

    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/

    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

    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

    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/




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