Modern Physics Course
A second year course introducing special relativity and quantum mechanics. All of the lecture notes are posted online.
Einstein's Gravitational Field Equations
Describes the properties of a gravitational field surrounding a given mass.
Black Holes
A very thorough introduction, studies the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom, and Kerr solutions using a variety of coordinate systems. Additional topics include gravitational collapse, horizons, singularities, Carter-Penrose diagrams (aka conformal compactification), Hawking radiation and black hole thermodynamics
Falling into a Black Hole (Andrew Hamilton)
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.
Caltech's Physics 237-2002 - Gravitational Waves
all the materials from a graduate-student-level course on Gravitational Waves taught at the California Institute of Technology, January through May of 2002. The materials include Quicktime videos of the lectures, lists of suggested and supplementary reading, copies of some of the readings, many exercises, and solutions to all exercises.
The Meaning of Einstein's Equations
An introduction to general relativity
General Relativity Tutorial (John Baez)
This is bunch of interconnected web pages that serve as an informal introduction to general relativity. The goal is to demystify general relativity and get across the key ideas without big complicated calculations.
General Relativity and Cosmology
An online notes from the University of British Columbia featuring simple explanations of cosmological phenomena.
Lecture Notes on General Relativity (Sean Carroll)
Lecture notes for a one-semester course in General Relativity.
Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity
A course from the Department of Mathematics at Hofstra University on differential geometry and general relativity.
The Light Cone - An Illuminating Introduction to Relativity (by Rob Salgado)
a multimedia introduction to the theory of relativity
Relativity and Cosmology
Undergraduate course notes including both special relativity and general relativity.
Lecture Notes on General Relativity
Download lecture notes on special relativity, general relativity, differential geometry, and spherically symmetric space-times in postscript format.
Special Relativity
A set of online lecture notes for a course in special relativity from the University of Winnepeg.
Tensors and Relativity (Peter Dunsby)
A complete online course in tensors and relativity
Geometry Around Black Holes (Michael Cramer Andersen)
A WWW Exhibition in Relativistic Computer Dynamics and Visualization
Relativity Tutorial
An illustrated guide to relativity
Cosmology
This page contains information about the course Cosmology and exobiology read in the fall semester 1999 at the Physics Institute of NTNU, Trondheim
General Relativity
This homepage contains lecture notes on the course of general relativity FX2/H97 read in the fall semester 1997 at the Physics Institute of NTNU, Trondheim
Cambridge Relativity
Non-technical descriptions of cosmology, black holes, cosmic strings, inflation, quantum cosmology, and string theory.
Theory of Relativity Class
Learn about Einstein's Theory of Relativity online. The class covers cosmology, the Twin Paradox, space travel, and black holes.
Theory of Relativity
Website for an online relativity class. Covers special relativity in depth and general relativity at a more qualitative level. Contains tutorial material, references, and links.
Bondi K-Calculus
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.
Modern Relativity
A set of notes outlining general relativity and its applications, including modern theories of FTL travel and wormholes.
Lorentz Transformation
Interactive program for learning about the Lorentz transformation.
General Relativity Tutorials
Detailed steps on how to Linearize Einstein's field equations of general relativity.
Tensor Calculus and Continuum Mechanics
A free downloadable textbook on introductory tensor analysis and continuum mechanics, in PDF format, from Professor John J. Heinbockel at Old Dominion University.
Reflections on Relativity
Comprehensive presentation of the special and general theories of relativity.
General Relativity: MT 2003
Introductory course on General Relativity
Understanding General Relativity
The theory of general relativity in an easily understandable way.
Understanding Special Relativity
The theory of special relativity in an easily understandable way.
Visualization of the Theory of Relativity
Online papers, images, movies and paper models.
Spacetime 101 (Patricia Schwarz)
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.
A Short Course on General Relativity
A graduate level course which includes weak field theory, gravitational waves, radiation damping, cosmology, the Friedmann and Lemaitre dusts, singularities, black holes, the Schwarzschild metric and Kruskal's extension of it. This is a single postscript document.
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