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Relativity Tutorial
written by Edward Wright
This brief tutorial website is part of the UCLA Devision of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The site contains the basics of special and general relativity for the purpose of exploring cosmology. The tutorial is illustrated and written at an introductory level (with some calculus).
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm
Subjects Levels Resource Types
General Physics
- General
Relativity
- General Relativity
= Cosmology
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Tutorial
- Audio/Visual
= Image/Image Set
= Movie/Animation
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- Learners
- text/html
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© 1996 Edward L. Wright
Keywords:
animation, cosmology, equivalence, radar, relativity diagrams, time dilation
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created September 6, 2005 by Blake Laing
Record Updated:
August 22, 2009 by Gregory Comer
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August 29, 2005
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E. Wright, (1996), WWW Document, (http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm).
AJP/PRST-PER
E. Wright, Relativity Tutorial (1996), <http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm>.
APA Format
Wright, E. (2005, August 29). Relativity Tutorial. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm
Chicago Format
Wright, Edward. Relativity Tutorial. August 29, 2005. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm (accessed 1 May 2025).
MLA Format
Wright, Edward. Relativity Tutorial. 1996. 29 Aug. 2005. 1 May 2025 <http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm>.
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