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Courses on special relativity:
Special relativity by Andrew Hamilton (University of Colorado)
Relativity Electronic Text by Bob Hawkes (Mount Allison University)
Claustrophobic Physics: An introduction to the theory of relativity and Poincaré Symmetry by Paul Bickerstaff (University of Auckland)
The Light Cone by Roberto Salgado (Syracuse University)
Tensors and relativity by Peter Dunsby (University of Cape Town)
Courses on classical dynamics:
Mechanics by Birger Bergersen (University of British Columbia)
Analytical Mechanics by Katherine Benson (Emory University)
Mechanics and Special Relativity by Howard Georgi (Harvard University), includes pdf text by David Morin
Physics 326 by Jim Wiss (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Inertial forces:
Movies of motion from inertial and rotating viewpoints by Pierre Flament and coworkers (University of Hawaii)
Bad meteorology debunking myths about the Coriolis force on your bath water, by Alistair Fraser (Pennsylvania State University)
Planetary motion and space travel:
Astronomy Notes by Nick Strobel (Bakersfield College) (copy on Physics Teaching Web)
NASA site on Kepler and his laws
NASA JPL site on the basics of space flight
JAVA applet illustrating Keplerian motion by David McNamara and Gianfranco Vidali (Syracuse University)
Courses on cosmology:
Cosmology tutorial by Ned Wright (UCLA)
General relativity by John Norbury (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Relativity and cosmology by Jose Wudka (University of California, Riverside)
List of other Web resources on relativity and cosmology:
Relativity on the Web collected by Chris Hillman (University of Washington) and John Baez (University of California, Riverside)
Course on tensors:
Tensors by Peter Young (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Lecture on the moment-of-inertia tensor:
The Inertia Tensor and After Dinner Tricks by Steve Drasco (Cornell University)
Encylopaedias of physics and maths:
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics (currently unavailable as a result of legal action!)
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Physics
Christer's Pages of Logic, Math and Reasoning
St. Andrews history of mathematics archive with biographies of mathematicians (and theoretical physicists)
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Mike Birse
7th June 2001