an illustrated introductory guide to relativity

Fall into a black hole on a real free fall orbit. All distortions of images are real, both general relativistic from the gravitational bending of light, and special relativistic from the near light speed orbit.

General Relativity This homepage contains lecture notes on the course of general relativity FX2/H97 read in the fall semester 1997 at the of NTNU, Trondheim. Some parts were added later. It is still under construction (see the dates of last revision of ea

John H. Heinbockel Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics and Statistics Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529 I have completed writing what I consider to be an introductory text for applied mathematicians, physicists and engineers. The fi

Learn about Einstein\'s Theory of Relativity Online. Find out how the universe began and how it will end.

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Syracuse University: The Light Cone

Here\'s some basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special Relativity and General Relativity.

Special Relativity

The Meaning of Einstein\'s Equation

General Relativity Tutorials Designed by a Graduate Student for Graduate Students by Kristen Wecht I designed the following general relativity tutorials for beginning graduate students in general relativity. My goal here is to fill in the missing steps be

gr-qc/9707012 Search for ( ) All papers Titles Authors Abstracts Full text Help pages General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, abstract gr-qc/9707012 From: Paul Townsend [ ] Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:13:06 GMT (139kb) Black Holes Authors: Comments: 145 p

A simple derivation of Einstein\'s theory of relativity which is widely taught to undergraduate physics students. The mathematics required though make this easy for anyone to understand.

Science and mathematics education online.

On-line introduction to differential geometry and general relativity. This is an upper level undergraduate mathematics course which assumes a knowledge of calculus, some linear algebra. No knowledge of relativity is assumed.

General Relativity, MT 2003 Lecture notes Revised 23.12.03 Problem sheets Michaelmas Term 2003

Expo/Science & Industry/Spacetime Wrinkles The Einstein Field Equations Larry Smarr, NCSA/Univ. of Illinois, on-camera (2.3 MB); (1.6 MB); , Einstein\'s gravitation theory yields a set of formulas known collectively as the Einstein Field Equations . In a

\'s Physics 237-2002 Gravitational Waves A Web-Based Course Organized and Designed by , and Lectures by Thorne and Guest Lecturers* Video of lectures by Bondarescu and Chen Homework problems by Thorne and Guest Lecturers Homework solutions by Bondarescu a

Understanding Special Relativity Table of Content Understanding Special Relativity By Rafi Moor

Visualization of the theory of relativity: online articles, pictures, movies and paper models by the physics education group Ute Kraus (Theoretische Astrophysik Tübingen, Germany)

Physics 252: Modern Physics (as given in Spring 1999) Teacher: (For premodern physics, check out my course on .) For German Readers : All the lectures below on Special Relativity have been translated into German by Christoph Scholz, who teaches high schoo

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