41. Edwin F. Taylor - General Relativity general relativity describes the distortion of spacetime near a star, white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole and predicts the resulting motion of stones, http://www.eftaylor.com/general.html

General Relativity Free sample chapters available for download purchase by phone: (int'l 1-201-767-5021) purchase by fax: purchase online: AMAZON.COM request an examination copy from the publisher Exploring Black Holes Introduction to General Relativity Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler Addison Wesley Longman HELP with the second edition of Exploring Black Holes Albert Einstein told us that a star or other massive object distorts spacetime in its vicinity. Sufficient distortion makes it impossible to describe matter and motion with the single "inertial reference frame" used in Newton's theory of mechanics and Einstein's theory of special relativity. General relativity describes the distortion of spacetime near a star, white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole and predicts the resulting motion of stones, satellites, and light flashes. Learning general relativity usually requires mastering Einstein's field equations, which are expressed in the complicated mathematics of tensors or differential forms. But big chunks of general relativity require only calculus if one starts with the metric describing spacetime around Earth or black hole. Expressions for energy and angular momentum follow, along with predictions for the motions of particles and light. Students study the Global Positioning system, precession of Mercury's orbit, gravitational red shift, orbits of light and deflection of light by Sun, frame-dragging and precession near a rotating body, gravitational waves, and two different models of the Universe.

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Hisaaki Shinkai's General Relativity Links His General Relativity Links Updated : 2008/2/7 I am maintaining a list of General Relativity related services available on the Internet. Here you will find a list of resources, including Conferences, Workshops information forthcoming, recent or past : go to today in the list , a list of regular conferences Journals/Preprint servers Relativity Servers Institutes, Groups Personal Services Softwares Physics Societies Matters of Gravity Newsletter: (From Louisiana State 's server) Astrophysics and Astronomy GW, CMBR, MACHO, ...

43. TGRU Home A OneTerm (1 Quarter) Undergraduate Course on general relativity with Applications How do you teach general relativity to undergraduates? Read on. http://www.aapt-doorway.org/TGRU/

General Relativity for Undergraduates Ideas, Approaches, Experiences, Insights Articles by Speakers and Participants click below to view) ARTICLES Relativistic Effects in the Global Positioning System (PDF) by Neil Ashby Some Thoughts on Involving Undergraduate Students in GR-Related Research (PDF) by Thomas Baumgarte Light Cones in the Schwarzschild Geometry by Jeff Bowen Stirring Up Undergraduate Interest in Relativity Research in a Non-Relativistic Department (PDF) by Thomas Brueckner Spinning Charged Bodies and the Linearized Kerr Metric (PDF) by Joel Franklin Quantum gravity with undergraduates (PDF) by Seth Major General Relativity in the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum (PDF) by James Hartle Pedagogical Strategy (PDF) by James Hartle Tips on Teaching GR (with Tensors) to Undergraduates and Appendix (PDF) by Tom Moore Acceleration of Light at Earth’s Surface (PDF) by Richard Mould A One-Term (1 Quarter) Undergraduate Course on General Relativity with Applications by George W. Rainey Teaching General Relativity: A Seven-Layer Cake by Ian H. Redmount

44. General Relativity Notes By Kristen Wecht Notes about the linearized Einstein equations, written by a graduate student (Kristen Wecht) for graduate students. Current content one stepby-step http://www.lehigh.edu/~kdw5/project/

General Relativity Tutorials Designed by a Graduate Student for Graduate Students by Kristen Wecht I designed the following general relativity tutorials for beginning graduate students in general relativity. My goal here is to fill in the missing steps between the equations in popular text books on the subject. How to Linearize Einstein's Field Equations (PDF format) How to Construct a Coordinate System That Simplifies the Linearized Field Equations (Work in progress) How to Make Physical Predictions Using the Simplified Linearized Field Equations (Work in progress) Questions or comments? email: Kristen Wecht

45. MIT OpenCourseWare | Physics | 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2006 | Home The basic principles of Einstein s general theory of relativity. Differential geometry. Experimental tests of general relativity. Black holes. Cosmology. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-962Spring-2006/CourseHome/index.htm

skip to content Home Courses Donate ... Physics General Relativity 8.962 General Relativity Spring 2006 A concept drawing of a black hole. (Image courtesy of NASA Course Highlights This course features a complete set of assignments and extensive readings Course Description 8.962 is MIT's graduate course in general relativity, which covers the basic principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity, differential geometry, experimental tests of general relativity, black holes, and cosmology. Technical Requirements Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .nb and .ps Staff Instructors: Prof. Scott Hughes Prof. Edmund Bertschinger Course Meeting Times Lectures: Two sessions / week 1.5 hours / session Recitations: One session / week 1 hour / session Level Graduate Download this course Archived Courses Previous version Feedback Send feedback on this course. RSS Feeds Site Map Your use of the MIT OpenCourseWare site and course materials is subject to our Creative Commons License and other terms of use.

46. General Relativity - Wikibooks, Collection Of Open-content Textbooks general relativity. University of Chicago. ISBN 0226-87033-2. P. A. M. Dirac (1996). General Theory of Relativity. Princeton University Press. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/General_relativity

General relativity From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection Jump to: navigation search edit Index Introduction Introduction to Tensors What is a tensor? Contravariant and Covariant Indices ... edit References D'Inverno, Ray (1992). Introducing Einstein's Relativity . Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-859686-3 Wald, Robert M. (1984). General Relativity . University of Chicago. ISBN 0-226-87033-2 P. A. M. Dirac (1996). General Theory of Relativity . Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01146-X Retrieved from " http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/General_relativity Subjects General relativity Physics ... Universal Decimal Classification/Uncategorized Views Book Discussion Edit this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main Page Help Cookbook Wikijunior ... Donations Community Bulletin Board Community portal Reading room Help cleanup ... Contact us Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages ... Permanent link This page was last modified 20:48, 15 November 2007. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see for details).

47. Martindale's Astronomy, Astrophysics & Space Center: General & Special Relativit Black Holes ~ general relativity ~ Special Relativity ~ Tensors Relativity General Special Relativity and Quantum Cosmology http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradSpace_4_G.html

M ARTINDALE'S T HE "VIRTUAL" ~ A STRONOMY A S PACE C ENTER US/Pacific: Friday, March 14, 2008 Sydney, Australia: Saturday, March 15, 2008 File Download Time Calculator Author, ... (Manned Space Flight, Satellites, etc.) Black Holes FALLING INTO A BLACK HOLE - A. Hamilton, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA) Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Andrew Hamilton's Home Page or the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy Examples from over "9" Black Holes Course Chapters include Chapter 1: Approaching the Black Hole Chapter 3: Falling to the Singularity of the Black Hole Chapter 5: Schwarzschild Geometry Chapter 6: White Holes and Wormholes ... Exploration of the Universe Division (EUD) or the Goddard Space Flight Center General Relativity General Relativity Courses INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND GENERAL RELATIVITY - S. Waner, Department of Mathematics, Hofstra University Steven R. Costenoble's Home Page Department of Mathematics or Hofstra University Some examples from over "15" Differential Geometry and General Relativity Lectures include Lecture 3: Vector Fields Lecture 7: Covariant Differentiation Lecture 13: The Einstein Field Equations and Derivation of Newton's Law General Relativity Teaching Modules AN ILLUMINATING INTRODUCTION TO RELATIVITY: THE LIGHT CONE - R. Salgado, Department of Physics, Syracuse University

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49. Gen. Relativity Cosmology general relativity COSMOLOGY. As Elementary Particle Physicists direct their Moreover, I am so ignorant of general relativity and most of the fine http://jick.net/~jess/p200/cosm/cosm.html

Next: Astronomy As Elementary Particle Physicists direct their attention ``down'' toward the indescribably tiny, so Cosmologists turn their gaze ``upward'' toward the unfathomably huge. Of course, these days both are increasingly likely to be incarnate in the same individual - I'll get to that later. As one who has never looked through a telescope larger than I could carry, I am certain to give short shrift to the magnificent observational science of astronomy , which provides cosmology (a theoretical discipline) with all its data. But a summary of the former without good colour plates of star fields and nebulae would be a terrible waste anyway, so I hope I have motivated the curious to go out and read a good Astronomy book on their own. Moreover, I am so ignorant of General Relativity and most of the fine points of Cosmology that I really have no business writing about either. Therefore I must content myself with a justification in terms of my ``unique point of view,'' whereby I excuse the following distortions. Astronomy Tricks of the Trade Parallax Spectroscopy ... Bang!

50. SpringerLink - Journal springerlink.metapress.com/content/15729532/ - Similar pages general relativity versus exotic dark matter - CERN CourierNow F I Cooperstock and S Tieu of the University of Victoria have reworked the problem using general relativity in place of Newtonian gravity, and they find http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/1572-9532/

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51. Relativity -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia With his theories of special relativity (1905) and general relativity (1916), Einstein overthrew many assumptions underlying earlier physical theories, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109465/relativity

document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Browse Shop Log In Search Site: relativity physics Main wide-ranging physical theories formed by the German-born physicist Albert Einstein . With his theories of special relativity (1905) and general relativity (1916), Einstein overthrew many assumptions underlying earlier physical theories, redefining in the process the fundamental concepts of space time matter energy , and gravity . Along with quantum mechanics , relativity is central to modern physics. In particular, relativity provides the basis for understanding cosmic processes and the geometry of the universe itself. inertial motion. Beginning with the behaviour of light (and all other electromagnetic radiation ), the theory of special relativity draws conclusions that are contrary to everyday experience but fully confirmed by experiments. Special relativity revealed that the speed of light is a limit that can be approached but not reached by any material object; it is the origin of the most famous equation in science, E m c twin paradox electricity and magnetism , which have been unified as electromagnetism , the strong force , and the weak force .) Gravity defines macroscopic behaviour, and so general relativity describes large-scale physical phenomena such as planetary dynamics, the

52. What Is The General Theory Of Relativity? What is general relativity? What s the basic idea? What happens to light cones? And that is what the General Theory of Relativity is all about. http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/patricia/greltop.html

53. General Relativity In The Global Positioning System Brief text by Neil Ashby (University of Colorado) about the influence of relativistic effects on the satellite navigation system GPS; from the Matters of http://www.phys.lsu.edu/mog/mog9/node9.html

General relativity in the global positioning system Neil Ashby University of Colorado n_ashby@mobek.colorado.edu The Global Position System (GPS) consists of 24 earth-orbiting satellites, each carrying accurate, stable atomic clocks. Four satellites are in each of six different orbital planes, of inclination 55 degrees with respect to earth's equator. Orbital periods are 12 hours (sidereal), so that the apparent position of a satellite against the background of stars repeats in 12 hours. Clock-driven transmitters send out synchronous time signals, tagged with the position and time of the transmission event, so that a receiver near the earth can determine its position and time by decoding navigation messages from four satellites to find the transmission event coordinates, and then solving four simultaneous one-way signal propagation equations. Conversely, gamma-ray detectors on the satellites could determine the space-time coordinates of a nuclear event by measuring signal arrival times and solving four one-way propagation delay equations. Apart possibly from high-energy accelerators, there are no other engineering systems in existence today in which both special and general relativity have so many applications. The system is based on the principle of the constancy of c in a local inertial frame: the Earth-Centered Inertial or ECI frame. Time dilation of moving clocks is significant for clocks in the satellites as well as clocks at rest on earth. The weak principle of equivalence finds expression in the presence of several sources of large gravitational frequency shifts. Also, because the earth and its satellites are in free fall, gravitational frequency shifts arising from the tidal potentials of the moon and sun are only a few parts in

54. Hyperspace GR Hypertext Welcome to HyperSpace, a set of hypertext based services for general relativity research provided by the UBC general relativity and cosmology group. http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/hyperspace/

Welcome to HyperSpace , a set of hypertext based services for general relativity research provided by the UBC general relativity and cosmology group. We have the following: Information on the UBC GR group Software for finding GR mail addresses GR News Archives Preprint searches ... Other GR groups The UBC GR group We're part of the theoretical physics group located in the physics department of the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver, BC, and are working in pretty much all areas of gravity research. Here you can find out who we are, and a little bit about what we're doing: Faculty Members Research Associates, Postdocs and Visitors Address searches Here we have a nifty forms-based program, GR, that searches a list of e-mail and snail mail addresses important to the GR community. The list and software comes from QMW , but the software was originally developed at UBC . It has many personas that cross-reference each other in an intelligent way so that searching is made easy. It also gives links to various preprint databases. We have the following: GR the full forms-based program or you can access a simple version of each persona if you do not have forms support: GRpeople Finds the e-mail and snail mail addresses of people in the GR community.

55. AAPT Events Department Chairs Conference VIII InterAmerican Conference Computational Physics for Upper Level Courses Teaching general relativity http://www.aapt.org/Events/

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56. General Relativity - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia www.msplinks.com/ MDFodHRwOi8vZW4ud2lraXBlZGlhLm9yZy93aWtpL0dlbmVyYWxfcmVsYXRpdml0eQ Similar pages PDF Semi-Riemann Geometry and general relativityFile Format PDF/Adobe Acrobat http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vZW4ud2lraXBlZGlhLm9yZy93aWtpL0dlbmVyYWxfcmVs

General relativity From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to general relativity A simulated Black Hole of ten solar masses as seen from a distance of 600 km with the Milky Way in the background (horizontal camera opening angle: 90°). General relativity GR ) or General theory of relativity GTR ) is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915/16. It unifies special relativity Newton's law of universal gravitation , and the insight that gravitational acceleration can be described by the curvature of space and time , this latter being produced by the mass energy and momentum content of the matter in spacetime General relativity is distinguished from other metric theories of gravitation by its use of the Einstein field equations to relate spacetime content and spacetime curvature. The field equations are a system of partial differential equations whose solution gives the metric tensor of spacetime, describing its "shape". In the resulting geometry, an object moving inertially in a gravitational field is viewed as following a geodesic path that may be found using the Christoffel symbols of the metric.

57. ESA - GSP - Towards A New Test Of General Relativity? Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could help physicists to make a significant step http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html

ESA GSP More information Introduction 2006 Review Workshop Planned Inspirational Utilitarian Basic Completed Inspirational Utilitarian Basic Services Subscribe Search All ESA Home Advanced Search News Experiment in ARC Seibersdorf research Towards a new test of general relativity? 23 March 2006 Scientists funded by the European Space Agency believe they may have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could help physicists to make a significant step towards the long-sought-after quantum theory of gravity. Just as a moving electrical charge creates a magnetic field, so a moving mass generates a gravitomagnetic field. According to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, the effect is virtually negligible. However, Martin Tajmar, ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, Austria, and colleagues believe they have measured the effect in a laboratory. Their experiment involves a ring of superconducting material rotating up to 6 500 times a minute. Superconductors are special materials that lose all electrical resistance at a certain temperature. Spinning superconductors produce a weak magnetic field, the so-called London moment. The new experiment tests a conjecture that explains the difference between high-precision mass measurements of Cooper-pairs (the current carriers in superconductors) and their prediction via quantum theory. They have discovered that this anomaly could be explained by the appearance of a gravitomagnetic field in the spinning superconductor (This effect has been named the Gravitomagnetic London Moment by analogy with its magnetic counterpart).

58. 3quarksdaily I hope you don t wait until the anniversary of general relativity to write a short essay that will plainly explain that theory. Thanks, Andrew. http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2005/09/general_relativ.html

ABOUT US ARCHIVES LINKS RSS ... MONDAY COLUMNS An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature Main September 19, 2005 Monday Musing: General Relativity, Very Plainly [NOTE: Since I wrote and published this essay last night, I have received a private email from Sean Carroll , who is the author of an excellent book on general relativity , as well as a comment on this post from Daryl McCullough, both pointing out the same error I made: I had said, as do many physics textbooks, that special relativity applies only to unaccelerated inertial frames, while general relativity applies to accelerated frames as well. This is not really true, and I am very grateful to both of them for pointing this out. With his permission, I have added Sean's email to me as a comment to this post, and I have corrected the error by removing the offending sentences.] In June of this year, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Einstein's original paper on special relativity, I wrote a Monday Musing column in which I attempted to explain some of the more salient aspects of that theory. In a comment on that post, Andrew wrote: "I loved the explanation. I hope you don't wait until the anniversary of general relativity to write a short essay that will plainly explain that theory." Thanks, Andrew. The rest of you must now pay the price for Andrew's flattery: I will attempt a brief, intuitive explanation of some of the well-known results of general relativity today. Before I do that, however, a caveat: the mathematics of

59. Classical Mechanics The underlying principle of general relativity is that the effects of The general theory of relativity derives its origin from the need to extend the http://phys-edu.net/

CLASSICAL MECHANICS General Relativity And The Theory Of Gravitation General Relativity Effective Field Theory Description of Gravity Relativistic Theory of Gravitation (RTG) RTG Conclusions ... Physics Breakthrough News General Relativity Albert Einstein, German born American physicist responsible for the relativistic theory of motion. Einstein's relativistic theory of Special Relativity was later applied to the gravitational field, describing gravity as a curvature in space. Energy and matter (like the earth) can bend both space and time (so called "space-time"), which produces a "curve" for things to fall into. The Moon is in orbit of the earth from such a curvature. The general theory is really just an adaptation of the special theory of relativity so the behavior of light is also described in this theory. -If space can become distorted so can light, and it does, not only does space bend, but even time itself can be slowed. The principle behind this Einstein called the "principle of equivalence," which is a relativistic version of the Doppler Effect. The underlying principle of General Relativity is that the effects of acceleration are equivocal to the effects of being pulled by a gravitational field. The general theory of relativity derives its origin from the need to extend the new space and time concepts of the special theory of relativity from the domain of electric and magnetic phenomena to all of physics and, particularly, to the theory of gravitation. As space and time relations underlie all physical phenomena, it is conceptually intolerable to have to use mutually contradictory notions of space and time in dealing with different kinds of interactions, particularly in view of the fact that the same particles may interact with each other in several different wayselectromagnetically, gravitationally, and by way of so-called nuclear forces.

60. General Relativity Passes Cassini Test - Physicsworld.com In general relativity the fabric of spacetime is curved by large masses. This curvature is responsible for the force of gravity, and also deflects and http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/18268

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