Courses & Textbooks
FALLING INTO A BLACK HOLE - A. Hamilton, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA)
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado
Multimedia Course (Text, Images & Movies).
For more information see
Andrew Hamilton's Home Page or the
Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy
Examples from over "9" Chapters with Movies include
INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND GENERAL RELATIVITY - S. Waner & S.R. Costenoble,
Department of Mathematics, Hofstra University
Multimedia Course/Lectures (Text & Images).
For more information see
Online Utilities & Software - Calculators;
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus Resource Page;
Steven R. Costenoble's Home Page;
Department of Mathematics or
Hofstra University
Examples from over "15" Lectures include
SPECIAL RELATIVITY - A. Hamilton, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA)
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado
Multimedia Course (Text, Images & Movies).
For more information see
Andrew Hamilton's Home Page or the
Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy
Examples from over "8" Chapters & Movies include
TENSORS & RELATIVITY - Peter Dunsby, Department of Mathematics and Applied
Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Multimedia Course (Text & Images).
For more information see
Online Courses or the
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Examples from over "8" chapters include
Tutorials
COSMOLOGY TUTORIAL - E. L. Wright, Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCLA
Multimedia Tutorial (Text & Images).
For more information see
Edward L. Wright's Home Page or the
Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics
COSMOS - Realtivity & Gravitation Group,
Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Multimedia Tutorials (Text, Images & Movies).
For more information see
Realtivity & Gravitation Group or the
Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
Examples of Tutorials & Movies include
BLACK HOLES - High Energy Astrophysics Science archive Researh Center (HEASARC),
a service of the Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics (LHEA), Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
For more information see
Education;
High Energy Astrophysics Science archive Researh Center (HEASARC);
Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics (LHEA) or the
Goddard Space Flight Center
RELATIVITY TUTORIAL - E. L. Wright, Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCLA
Multimedia Tutorial (Text & Images).
For more information see
Edward L. Wright's Home Page or the
Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics
THE LIGHT CONE: AN ILLUMINATING INTRODUCTION TO RELATIVITY - R. Salgado, Department of Physics, Syracuse University
Multimedia Teaching Modules & Java Applets (Text & Images).
For more information see
Interactive Simulations;
Physics Courses or the
Department of Physics
Applets & Calculators
SEE ASTROPHYSICS & PHYSICS CALCULATORS AND/OR THE
MATHEMATICS CALCULATORS
SOME EXAMPLES INCLUDE
GRTENSOR II DEMONSTRATIONS - P. Musgrave, Astronomy Research Group,
Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
VERY VERY EXTENSIVE.
"...a computer algebra package for performing calculations in the general area of
differential geometry. Its purpose is the calculation of tensor components
on curved spacetimes specified in terms of a metric or set of basis vectors..."
"...demonstrations of GRTensorII currently available are in the
areas of: General Relativity & Geometry; Black Hole Perturbations;
The GRJunction Package & Engineering Applications.."
For more information see
GRTensor II or the
Department of Physics
GRAVITY SIMULATION (JAVA APPLET) - Department of Physics, Syracuse University
Multimedia JAVA Tutorials (Text & Images).
For more information see
Interactive Simulations;
Physics Courses or the
Department of Physics
INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENTS IN GRAVITY (JAVA APPLETS) - J. Walker, Switzerland
"This directory contains documents and interactive Java applets which explore aspects of both Newton's
theory of universal gravitation and Einstein's general relativity. "
For more information see
Index Librorum Liberorum
INVARIANT CLASSIFICATION (MIRROR SITE) - J. Skea, Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Theoretical Physics,
Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
"The database presently contains 196 invariant classifications."
For more information see
Jim Skea's Home Page or the
Symbolic Computation Group
SPECIAL RELATIVITY (JAVA APPLET) - Physics 1, Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology (CIT)
"This Java applet demonstrates some physical effects of Einstein's Special Relativity."
For more information see
Physics 1 Applet Page or
Physics 1b (Analytical): Special Relativity and Electromagnetism
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