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Books

•  Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity, James B. Hartle, Addison Wesley, 2003.
• A First Course in General Relativity B.F. Schutz, Cambridge, 1985.
• Gravitation and Cosmology S. Weinberg, Wiley, 1972.
• Einstein's Relativity: The Special and General Theory - The Guttenberg Project
• Lorentz's The Einstein Theory of Relativity - The Guttenberg Project

Lecture Notes (Read this for file formats)

• General Relativity
  •  Introduction to General Relativity, t Hooft's Lectures - (PDF)
  • Lecture Notes on General Relativity, Sean M. Carroll, University of Chicago
  • No-Nonsense Introduction Sean M. Carroll, University of Chicago
  • General Relativity Tutorial, John Baez, UC Riverside
  • Physics 8.962, Ed Bertschinger, MIT
  • Lecture Notes on General Relativity, Petr Hadrava, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Tensors and Relativity, Peter Dunsby, Cape Town
  • Modern Relativity
  • Special Relativity Notes, David W. Hogg
  • Lecture Notes on General Relativity, Matthias Blau, ICTP (postscript).
  • Physics Virtual Bookshelf
  • Reflections on Relativity
• Differential Geometry
  • Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity, Stefan Waner, Hofstra University
  • Differential Geometry Notes, G. Lugo, UNCW
  • Complex Geometry - not for the faint-hearted!
• Advanced Topics
  • Black Hole Lecture Notes, Paul Townsend, Cambridge
  • Theis' Collection of Lecture Note Links in Theoretical Physics
  • 't Hooft's Lecture Notes

Websites

• Einstein's Legacy
• Special Relativity @ Virginia Tech.
• Tensors and Relativity 2003
• Lectures on relativity in celestial mechanics
• The Light Cone
• Relativity Bookmarks, Syracuse University
• Relativity on the World Wide Web
• Relativity and Black Hole Links, Andrew Hamilton, University of Colorado
• Hyperspace, University of British Columbia
• Living Reviews in Relativity
• gr-qc archive, Los Alamos
• Shadows of Rotating Black Holes
• Spacetime Diagrams
• Cambridge Relativity

Multimedia

• Dr. Herman's Lists: Homepage, Einstein Page
• GR Primer - Sean Carroll videos - part of Gravity In The Quantum World And The Cosmos
• MIT GR Opencourseware
• Black Hole Simulation Software
• Cosmic Structure Formation; From Inflation to Galaxies

YouTube

• Topics
  • General Relativity, String Theory, and M-Theory
• Escher's Relativity
• The Elegant Universe - Einstein's Relativity
• Visualization of Einstein's Special Relativity
• Albert Einstein - The Mark Steel Lectures Part 1/6
• Simultaneity - Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
• Time Dilation - Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
• Relativity - The Train Paradox
• Special Relativity In 9 Minutes
• General Relativity: gravitational waves
• Astronomy/Physics Lecture - General Relativity
• Uniform acceleration in relativity, #1/3

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