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C-Ship (Popularity:  )
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/
A short overview of special relativity, filled with relativistic ray traced images. Explains relativistic effects using a theoretical spaceship.
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Special Relativity (Popularity: )
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/relativity.html
A brief overview of the theory of special relativity, and how it pertains to particles at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator)
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Jim Doyle's Special Relativity Pages (Popularity: )
http://www.btinternet.com/~j.doyle/SR/sr1.htm
A growing collection of pages on special relativity, including Special Relativity in under 15 Minutes!
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How Stuff Works: Special Relativity (Popularity: )
http://www.howstuffworks.com/relativity.htm
The major principles of special relativity (SR) are discussed in an accessible way, via 5 segments, to help you understand ...
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Minkowski spacetime (Popularity: )
http://home.wanadoo.nl/ronald.koster/minkowski.html
Minkowski's spacetime concept explained.[PDF]
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Special Relativity (Popularity: )
http://www.geocities.com/zcphysicsms/sr.htm
A unit for an online relativity textbook explaining special relativistic mathematical physics.
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Special relativity article (Popularity: )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
From the free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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Special Relativity Lecture Notes (Popularity: )
http://www.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/notes
A standard introduction to special relativity where explanations are based on pictures called spacetime diagrams.
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Relativistic Contraction (Popularity: )
http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/%7ecfadd/1160/Ch27SpRl/ApLrntz.html
Those who teach special relativity consider it a very important exercise to have students decide how to measure the length ...
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Relativity Tutorial (Popularity: )
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/%7ewright/relatvty.htm
An introduction to relativity using space-time diagrams.
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How Do You Add Velocities in Special Relativity? (Popularity: )
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/velocity.html
Here is the formula for adding velocities in special relativity when motion occurs in a single direction.
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Relativity in its Historical Context (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Special_relativity.html
The discovery of special relativity was inevitable, given the momentous discoveries that preceded it.
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Traveling the universe at constant acceleration (Popularity: )
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/sr/wheel.html
Suppose you took a trip across the universe in a spaceship, accelerating all the time at one Earth gravity g. ...
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University Lectures on Special Relativity (Popularity: )
http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/~jcresser/Phys378/LectureNotes/SpecialRelativityNotes.pdf
Lecture notes on Special Relativity, prepared by J. D. Cresser, Department of Physics, Macquarie University. 44 pages.
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Synchronization Gauges and the Principles of Special Relativity (Popularity: )
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0409105
There are a few published ‘theories’ that seem to differ from the standard Special Relativity Theory (SRT). These differences are ...
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Quaternions in University-Level Physics Considering Special Relativity (Popularity: )
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0308/0308017.pdf
The quaternions are an expansion of complex numbers and show close relations to numerous physically fundamental concepts (e.g. Pauli Matrices).
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Santa at Nearly the Speed of Light (Popularity: )
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/santa/
An estimate of the speed and distances covered by Santa Claus on Christmas night. The physics is unassailable. The article ...
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Beneath the Foundations of Spacetime (Popularity: )
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf
Special relativity becomes simple and very convincing when the Lorentz transformation is derived only from Newton's first law of motion ...
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Student understanding of time in special relativity (Popularity: )
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0207/0207109.pdf
A report on the ineffectiveness of standard university instruction in the concept of time in special relativity by Rachel E. ...
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