A graduate level course which includes weak field theory, gravitational waves, radiation damping, cosmology, the Friedmann and Lemaitre dusts, singularities, black holes, the Schwarzschild metric and Kruskal's extension of it. This is a single postscript document.

A very thorough introduction, studies the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom, and Kerr solutions using a variety of coordinate systems. Additional topics include gravitational collapse, horizons, singularities, Carter-Penrose diagrams (aka conformal compactification), Hawking radiation and black hole thermodynamics

A simple derivation of Einstein's theory of relativity which is widely taught to undergraduate physics students. The mathematics required though make this easy for anyone to understand.

all the materials from a graduate-student-level course on Gravitational Waves taught at the California Institute of Technology, January through May of 2002. The materials include Quicktime videos of the lectures, lists of suggested and supplementary reading, copies of some of the readings, many exercises, and solutions to all exercises.

Non-technical descriptions of cosmology, black holes, cosmic strings, inflation, quantum cosmology, and string theory.

This page contains information about the course Cosmology and exobiology read in the fall semester 1999 at the Physics Institute of NTNU, Trondheim

Describes the properties of a gravitational field surrounding a given mass.

Fall into a black hole on a real free fall orbit. All distortions of images are real, both general relativistic from the gravitational bending of light, and special relativistic from the near light speed orbit.

This homepage contains lecture notes on the course of general relativity FX2/H97 read in the fall semester 1997 at the Physics Institute of NTNU, Trondheim

An online notes from the University of British Columbia featuring simple explanations of cosmological phenomena.

An online draft copy of an undergraduate text book by John Norbury (PDF).

This is bunch of interconnected web pages that serve as an informal introduction to general relativity. The goal is to demystify general relativity and get across the key ideas without big complicated calculations.

Detailed steps on how to Linearize Einstein's field equations of general relativity.

Introductory course on General Relativity

A WWW Exhibition in Relativistic Computer Dynamics and Visualization

A course from the Department of Mathematics at Hofstra University on differential geometry and general relativity.

Download lecture notes on special relativity, general relativity, differential geometry, and spherically symmetric space-times in postscript format.

Lecture notes for a one-semester course in General Relativity.

A second year course introducing special relativity and quantum mechanics. All of the lecture notes are posted online.

A set of notes outlining general relativity and its applications, including modern theories of FTL travel and wormholes.

Comprehensive presentation of the special and general theories of relativity.

undergraduate course notes include both special relativity (e.g., spacetime, Lorentz invariance, various "paradoxes") and general relativity (e.g., equivalence principle, black holes, gravitational waves, experimental tests of gtr). Apparently a survey course for non-majors, with little math but some very nice graphics.

An illustrated guide to relativity

some basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special Relativity and General Relativity.

A set of online lecture notes for a course in special relativity from the University of Winnepeg.

A free downloadable textbook on introductory tensor analysis and continuum mechanics, in PDF format, from Professor John J. Heinbockel at Old Dominion University.

A complete online course in tensors and relativity

a multimedia introduction to the theory of relativity

An introduction to general relativity

Website for an online relativity class. Covers special relativity in depth and general relativity at a more qualitative level. Contains tutorial material, references, and links.

Learn about Einstein's Theory of Relativity online. The class covers cosmology, the Twin Paradox, space travel, and black holes.

The theory of special relativity in an easily understandable way.

Online papers, images, movies and paper models.