- Einstein's annus mirabilis (Scroll to bottom for more links.)
PRIMARY SOURCES
- Local graphics ( Oct 15: "The Lives of John, Jim and Dick")
- Space-time diagram in S1:
- Space-time diagram in S2:
- Space-time diagram in S1:
PRIMARY SOURCES
- Galileo's Publications:
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
- Dialogues Concerning Two Chief World Systems
- Full text HTML
- Galilean Relativity (click on p. 173 in left panel) "And here for a final proof of the nullity of all the experiments..."
- Newton's Principia
- Henri Poincare
- Einstein's FBI file
SECONDARY SOURCES
- Einstein on racism
- Essays on the nature of time
- From Newton's Principia (scroll down to SCHOLIUM).
- A history of time: Classical time
- A history of time: 20th century time
- Hubble's Guide to the Expanding Universe
- NOVA Program on "Einstein's Big Idea
- Podcasts (beware large files!)
EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES
- Astronomical Misconceptions Quiz
- Electromagnetic Induction
-
Gravitationally Lens a Picture From the Web!
- Try this file: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~jackph/2007f/your_prof.jpg
- or this one: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~jackph/2007f/einst_fid.jpg
ASTRONOMICAL WEBSITES
- Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Photo Album
- Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph, along with a brief explanation.
- Astronomical animations
- History
of Mathematics. Read the biographies of the following Scientists
- Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
- Euclid of Alexandria (c.325BC-c.265BC)
- Aristarchus of Samos (c.310BC-c.320BC)
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276BC-194BC)
- Claudius Ptolemy (c.85-c.165)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
- Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
- Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
- John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1832-1928)
- Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)
- Willem de Sitter (1872-1934)
- Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
- Aleksandr Friedmann (1888-1925)
- Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
- Stephen Hawking (1942- )
- Current and Upcoming Major Space Missions for X-ray Astronomy
- Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (launched 30 Dec 1995)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory (launched 23 Jul 1999)
- X-ray Multimirror Mission (launched 10 Dec 1999)
- Suzaku (launched 10 July 2005)
- A compendium of NASA space science missions.