Relativity and Gravitation
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| Newtonian gravity
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| Introductory What is gravity? - by Patricia Schwarz. Kepler's laws and Newton's laws without calculus - an extensive site. | Advanced topics . | ||
| Relativity: concepts and special relativity theory
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| Introductory Relativity on the Web - a unique collection of links on relativity. Covers everything - from tensor calculus to animated relativity, from undergraduate lecture notes to usenet discussion groups. Usenet Relativity FAQ - your first reading on relativity. Relativity tutorial by Ned Wright. Special relativity - detailed and clear; by A. Hamilton. The Light-cone - an illuminating introduction into relativity; contains several nice applets; By R. Salgado. Relativity and Faster-than-light travel FAQ - a huge site! | Advanced topics Relativity - the online version of original Einstein book; by Erk Living Reviews on Relativity - an excellent online educational journal. . | ||
| General relativity theory and gravitation
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| Introductory Spacetime 101 - a gentle introduction into basics of GR. General Relativity - by Erk. Orbits in strongly curves space-time - intructive Java applet by J. Walker. . . | Advanced topics General relativity tutorial by John Baez. Nature of space and time - lectures by Stephen Hawking in ps format. | ||
| Black holes
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| Introductory For immediate answers - see Black holes part of Usenet relativity FAQ . How do we see black holes? - by J. Blondin. Falling into a Black Hole - really nices animations with detailed explanatory text. Introduction to black holes - from Cambridge cosmology group. | Advanced topics The thermodynamics of black holes - online paper by G. Felder and C. Stebbins. Geometry around black holes - movies and some theory. Special topics on black holes - a collection of Mathematica 3.0 notebooks. | ||
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