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Title:

Relativity Tutorial

Url:

https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm

Creator:

Wright, Edward Leonard, 1947-.

Publisher:

University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of Astronomy.

Description: The University of California Los Angeles Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics professor Edward Wright maintains the Relativity Tutorial Web site. The site explains the history and general concepts behind relativity. Subjects covered include special relativity, radar, time dilation, general relativity, the principle of equivalence, curved spacetime, and how relativity is important to cosmology. The easily read descriptions and simple illustrations do give students the facts needed to begin to understand the complicated concepts explored on the site.

LC Classification:

Science -- Physics -- Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter -- Relativity physics
Science -- Physics -- Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter -- Relativity physics -- Special topics, A-Z -- Space and time
Science -- Physics -- Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter -- Relativity physics -- Special types of relativity theories -- General

GEM Subject:

Science
Science -- Physics
Science -- Instructional issues

Date Issued:

2006

Resource Type:

Reference Material
Audio/Visual -- Graph
Instructional Material
Audio/Visual -- Image/Image Set

Format:

Document -- HTML

Audience:

Learner

Education Level:

High School
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education

Language:

English

Rights:

Edward L. Wright

Access Rights:

Free access

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