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• FX2/H97: General Relativity

  http://www.asu.cas.cz/~had/gr.html
  Lecture notes for the course on general relativity held in 1997 at the Physics Institute of NTNU, Trondheim by Petr Hadrava (the lecture notes themselves are Postscript files).

• General Relativity Tutorial

  http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/gr/gr.html
  Highly recommendable collection of interconnected web pages that serve as an informal introduction to general relativity. While some mathematics is used, the focus is on the key ideas. By John Baez Ph.D (University of California at Riverside).

• Gravitation and Cosmology

  http://christian.vonschultz.se/forelant/gravitation_and_cosmology/
  Lecture notes from a graduate course on Gravitation and Cosmology, taught by M. Cederwall Ph.D. at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2008.

• Lecture Notes on General Relativity

  http://preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes/
  Lecture notes for a one-semester course in General Relativity. By Sean Carroll Ph.D

• Physics 237-2002: Gravitational Waves

  http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237/
  Collection of materials from a graduate-student-level course on Gravitational Waves taught at the California Institute of Technology, January through May of 2002; includes Quicktime videos of the lectures, lists of suggested and supplementary reading, copies of some of the readings, and many exercises with solutions. Designed by professors Kip S. Thorne, Mihai Bondarescu and Yanbei Chen

• Physics 252: Modern Physics

  http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html
  A second year course including twelve lectures on special relativity taught by Michael Fowler Ph.D, beams professor at the University of Virginia in 1999. Includes lecture notes in HTML format (from Galilei transformations to relativistic mechanics, including some thoughts on general relativity) and problem sets. introducing special relativity and quantum mechanics. All of the lecture notes are posted online.

• Reflections on Relativity

  http://www.mathpages.com/rr/rrtoc.htm
  Comprehensive online book about special and general relativity, from the fundamentals to cosmological applications, including a number of philosophical questions raised by Einstein's theory. Suitable for undergraduates and up. By Kevin Brown Ph.D.

• Relativity

  http://www.modernrelativitysite.com/
  An online text book tutorial on Albert Einstein's theories of general relativity and special relativity. By David Waite M.S.

• Relativity Tutorial

  http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/relatvty.htm
  Tutorial by Ned Wright Ph.D. (UCLA) featuring a step-by-step introduction to special relativity (focusing on spacetime diagrams) and the basic ideas of general relativity.

• Student Understanding of Time in Special Relativity

  http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0207109
  A report on the ineffectiveness of standard university instruction in Einstein's concept of time, by Rachel E. Scherr, Peter S. Shaffer, and Stamatis Vokos. Published in Physics Education Research (American Journal of Physics Supplement).

• Tensor Calculus and Continuum Mechanics

  http://www.math.odu.edu/~jhh/counter2.html
  A free downloadable textbook on introductory tensor analysis and continuum mechanics, in PDF format, from Professor Emeritus John J. Heinbockel of Old Dominion University.

• Theory of Relativity Class

  http://www.drphysics.com/
  Learn about Einstein's Theory of Relativity online. The class covers cosmology, the Twin Paradox, space travel, and black holes. Instructor Gabriel G. Lombardi Ph.D

• Understanding General Relativity

  http://www.rafimoor.com/english/GRE.htm
  Step-by-step introduction to general relativity, from the basic principles via a heuristic account of the mathematics of curved spaces to the Einstein field equations, plus brief sections on advanced topics such as black holes and cosmology. By Rafi Moor.

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