General Relativity, Gravity, and Cosmology
Class notes by Steve Bryson
Useful World Wide Web Sites:
On General Relativity:
jean-luc.aei-potsdam.mpg.de/Exhibits/ A link to several introductions to general relativity with an emphasis on computer-based simulation. Look especially at the "spacetime wrinkles" exhibit.
www.maths.soton.ac.uk/applied/relativity/GRExplorer/ A very nice site surveying several aspects of general relativity
casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml Movies showing what you'd see as you fell into a black hole.
www.astro.ku.dk/~cramer/RelViz/ More visualizations of the curved spacetime around a black hole.
www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/ The Cambridge University relativity group home page. Lots of information about cosmology and black holes.
On Cosmology:
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html The WMAP mission web site, with lots of pictures, data, and descriptions of issues in cosmology
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm A very nice cosmology tutorial
On Special Relativity:
www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm A nice introduction to spacetime diagrams, with a few words about curved space.
www.fourmilab.ch/cship/cship.html A wonderful site with lots of graphics showing what it's like to fly close to the speed of light.
On Both:
physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/ A wonderful web site explaining relativity from a light-cone point of view. Very visual with lots of animations.
On Einstein:
www.aip.org/history/einstein/ A history page on Einstein from the American Institute of Physics, including a recording of Einstein explaining E=mc2!
www.westegg.com/einstein/ Lots and lots of Einstein links
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