Open Directory - Science: Physics: Relativity: Courses and Tutorials
See also: - Lecture notes for a one-semester course in General Relativity. By Sean Carroll - 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. By William L. Burke - Lecture notes for the course on general relativity held in 1997 at the Physics Institute of NTNU, Trondheim by Petr Hadrava (the lecture notes themselves are Postscript files). - Lecture notes and problem sheets for a course taught by N.M.J. Woodhouse at Oxford University in 2003. - Highly recommendable collection of interconnected web pages that serve as an informal introduction to general relativity. While some mathematics is used, the focus is on the key ideas. By John Baez (University of California at Riverside). - Notes about the linearized Einstein equations, written by a graduate student (Kristen Wecht) for graduate students. Current content: one step-by-step description of how to derive the linearized Einstein equations. - Lecture notes from a graduate course on Gravitation and Cosmology, taught by M. Cederwall at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2008. - A course from the Department of Mathematics at Hofstra University on differential geometry and general relativity, from basic ideas like sets and parametric surfaces to black holes and neutron stars. By Stefan Waner (last chapter by Gregory C. Levine). - Collection of materials from a graduate-student-level course on Gravitational Waves taught at the California Institute of Technology, January through May of 2002; includes Quicktime videos of the lectures, lists of suggested and supplementary reading, copies of some of the readings, and many exercises with solutions. Designed by Kip S. Thorne, Mihai Bondarescu and Yanbei Chen - A second year course including twelve lectures on special relativity taught by Michael Fowler at the University of Virginia in 1999. Includes lecture notes in HTML format (from Galilei transformations to relativistic mechanics, including some thoughts on general relativity) and problem sets. introducing special relativity and quantum mechanics. All of the lecture notes are posted online. - Comprehensive online book about special and general relativity, from the fundamentals to cosmological applications, including a number of philosophical questions raised by Einstein's theory. Suitable for undergraduates and up. By Kevin Brown - Tutorial by Ned Wright (UCLA) featuring a step-by-step introduction to special relativity (focusing on spacetime diagrams) and the basic ideas of general relativity. - Tutorial by Patricia Schwarz (Caltech); accessible for a general audience. Covers the basics of spacetime, special and general relativity using simple diagrams. - Part of a course in modern physics (Physics 1501) taught by Randy Kobes and Gabor Kunstatter at the University of Winnipeg in 1999. Covers the basics from the two postulates to the Lorentz transformations plus selected further topics; uses no more than high-school level mathematics. - A free downloadable textbook on introductory tensor analysis and continuum mechanics, in PDF format, from Professor John J. Heinbockel at Old Dominion University. - A short tutorial on the basics of Einstein's theory of special relativity with visual demonstrations. Written by Dénes Paczolay, Supervisor: Zsuzsanna Varga Ph.D, University of Szeged. - Learn about Einstein's Theory of Relativity online. The class covers cosmology, the Twin Paradox, space travel, and black holes. Instructor Gabriel G. Lombardi - Step-by-step introduction to general relativity, from the basic principles via a heuristic account of the mathematics of curved spaces to the Einstein field equations, plus brief sections on advanced topics such as black holes and cosmology. By Rafi Moor. - Modern Relativity: An online text book tutorial on Albert Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity. By David Waite M.S. - A report on the ineffectiveness of standard university instruction in Einstein's concept of time, by Rachel E. Scherr, Peter S. Shaffer, and Stamatis Vokos. Published in Physics Education Research (American Journal of Physics Supplement). (July 26, 2002)
