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Cosmology: An Introductory Resource Guide for Instructors 
  
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A. Fraknoi; Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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This resource guide for introductory astronomy highlights useful and accessible materials on the web and in print. It is designed to help instructors quickly compile high-quality…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270648471_Cosmology_The_Origin_...
Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon its Energy-Content? 
  
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A. Einstein
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This is an English translation of the 1905 article by Albert Einstein that establishes the relation between the mass and energy of a particle.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/www/
The Light Cone: an illuminating introduction to relativity 
  
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This web site contains a detailed introduction to relativity. It integrates text explanations of relativity concepts with diagrams and animations to clarify the material. It includes…
http://visualrelativity.com/LIGHTCONE/indexv.html
Nobel Foundation: Relativity 
  
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This web site from the Nobel Foundation contains a number of short pages about relativity. Included are The Michelson-Morley Experiment, Postulates of Special Relativity, Lorentz…
http://web.archive.org/web/20151002203132/http://www.nobelprize.org/educ...
MacTutor History of Mathematics: General Relativity 
  
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This article reviews the history, theories and contributions that led Albert Einstein to formulate the theories of Special and General Relativity. It starts from the understanding of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/General_relativity/