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| | 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 - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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 - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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 - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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 - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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 - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | 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/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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