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Relativity Links


Spacetime Wrinkles
What's this Special Relativity?
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html

Relative Motion at Everyday Speeds
Here's our normal experiemce--a boat moving down a river.
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/relativeVelocity/relativeVelocity.html

Here's how we add things (like velocities) which have both magnitude 
(like 60 mph) and direction (like East).
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/vector_calculator.html

Relative Motion Near the Speed of Light
We have no experience with this--but every experiment we know of 
agrees with Einstein's theory.
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/~hwang/relativity/relativity.html

Falling into a Black Hole
Graphics and movies of motion near a black hole as predicted by 
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml

An example of time dilation
http://pathfinder.esu2.k12.ne.us/java/physics/physengl/timedil1.htm

View the Solar System
Find the positions of the planets at any time you choose.
http://www.fourmilab.to/solar/

Playing with time--look at change from a perspectives.
http://playingwithtime.org/

View the Earth or Moon from Space
What the Earth or Moon look like from space at time and distance you 
select--day or night.
http://www.fourmilab.to/earthview/vplanet.html


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