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Hi,
Are there any free online reliable resources to learn SR and GR?
Thanks.
Are there any free online reliable resources to learn SR and GR?
Thanks.
Hi bqq, rather good starters are Einstein's summaries- even if some modern resources are easier.bgq said:Hi,
Are there any free online reliable resources to learn SR and GR?
Thanks.
harrylin said:Hi bqq, rather good starters are Einstein's summaries- even if some modern resources are easier.
An important advantage is that you won't have to unlearn misinformation about SR and GR. Thus :
- http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
You can replace §3 by http://www.bartleby.com/173/11.html and http://www.bartleby.com/173/a1.html
- http://www.bartleby.com/173/
- http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Foundation_of_the_Generalised_Theory_of_Relativity
[EDIT:] See a not-so-subtle modification at the bottom of: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/TwinParadox/twin_gr.html - and note also that all the first-order effects can be derived without tensors but I don't know a web resource for that.
On SR there is also for example http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/michelson.html - very clear resource but regretfully with a few serious glitches.
[EDIT: see https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=4105964 + https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=641102&page=2]
PAllen said:Do you know an on line version of "The Meaning of Relatvity" by Einstein. Unlike all of your links, this was his most complete exposition of SR and GR for a professional audience (and also includes his final version of unified field theory). It is, in a real sense, Einstein's last word on all these matters:
- has updates past 1950
- full mathematical depth for the professional audience
I always prefer it over everything earlier/simplified, but I have never found an online version of it.
harrylin said:[EDIT:] See a not-so-subtle modification at the bottom of: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/TwinParadox/twin_gr.html
pervect said:I'm not terribly familiar with it, but Projet Guttenburg has it , apparently. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36276
Regretfully I don't know an online version including past 1950 updates; and there is an obvious reason why, even if I knew one, I could probably not (yet) post it here!PAllen said:Do you know an on line version of "The Meaning of Relatvity" by Einstein. Unlike all of your links, this was his most complete exposition of SR and GR for a professional audience (and also includes his final version of unified field theory). It is, in a real sense, Einstein's last word on all these matters:
- has updates past 1950 [by Einstein; latest revision less than 2 yrs. before his death.]
- full mathematical depth for the professional audience
I always prefer it over everything earlier/simplified, but I have never found an online version of it.
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