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Books

• Relativity
  • 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
  • Cosmology

    • The First Three Minutes, S. Weinberg

    • Introduction to Cosmology, B. Ryden

    • An Exposition on Inflationary Cosmology, S. Watson's Honor Thesis

  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,
    • No-Nonsense Introduction Sean M. Carroll, University of Chicago
    • General Relativity Tutorial, John Baez, UC Riverside
    • Tensors and Relativity, Peter Dunsby, Cape Town
    • Special Relativity Notes, David W. Hogg
    • Physics Virtual Bookshelf
    • Reflections on Relativity
  • Differential Geometry
    • Differential Forms and the Geometry of General Relativity, Tevian Drey
    • Differential Geometry Notes, G. Lugo, UNCW
    • Complex Geometry - not for the faint-hearted!
  • Advanced Topics
    • Black Hole Lecture Notes, Paul Townsend, Cambridge

  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
  • Visualization of Einstein's Special Relativity
  • Simultaneity - Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
  • Time Dilation - Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
  • Special Relativity In 9 Minutes
  • General Relativity: gravitational waves
  • Astronomy/Physics Lecture - General Relativity
  • Uniform acceleration in relativity, #1/3
  • Einstein Field Equations for Beginners

  Other Cosmology Books

  • Introduction to Cosmology, M. Roos
  • Cosmological Physics, Peacock
  • Principles of Physical Cosmology, P.J.E. Peebles
  • An Introduction to Modern Cosmology, A. Liddle
  • Cosmology, S. Weinberg - Advanced

  Popular Books

  • A Brief History of Time, S. Hawking
  • A Briefer History of Time, S. Hawking and L. Mlodinow
  • The Black Hole War, L. Susskind
  • The Day We Found the Universe, M. Bartusiak
  • Many Worlds in One, A. Vilenkin
  • Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang, P. J. Steinhardt and N. Turok
  • Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.), S. Singh
  • Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Cosmos, I. Nicolson
  • The Elegant Universe or The Fabric of the Cosmos, B. Greene
  • Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos, M. Kaku
  • Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, L. Randall

  Videos Online

  • What Banged? , N. Turok, Perimeter Institute
  • The Big Bang, S. Singh
  • Stephen Hawking's Universe
  • The Elegant Universe or here
  • Parallel Universes BBC
  • Future of Cosmology Lectures Kavli-CERCA Conference
  • Alex Vilenkin Interview
  • Cyclic Universe Model and Before the Big Bang Roger Penrose
  • Lisa Randall with Charlie Rose and more here

   

   

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