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Resources & Links
Websites on relativity and black holes:
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html
- This is a superb site on many aspects of relativity
and black holes, maintained by the U. Illinois supercomputer
center. You can enter in many places, but a good place to
start is here, the "Spacetime Wrinkles" page.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
- This site, set up by Robert Nemiroff (originator of
the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" series), has some
neat visualizations of relativistic effects.
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/relativity/GRExplorer/Grav_Waves/
Grav_Waves.htm
http://www.physicscentral.com/action/action-02-8b.html
- A couple of fairly short web pages on gravitational waves,
the latter comes to you from the American Physical Society.
http://lisa.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
- The home page of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a space instrument which will look for gravity waves.
List of Recommended Books on Relativity and Black Holes:
"Unveiling the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, and Wormholes,"
John Gribbin (1992)
- highly recommended, I have sometimes used
this as a textbook for Ast 309N. Mostly on general relativity and black holes.
"Einstein's Mirror," Tony Hey & Patrick Walters (1997)
- A nice coffee-table
"trade paperback," discusses mostly special relativity, also provides
an historical perspective.
"Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe," Mitchell Begelman
& Martin Rees (1996)
- a good companion to "Einstein's Mirror," this
book does general relativity much more completely.
"Relativity Simply Explained," Martin Gardner (1962; 1976 Dover paperback)
- unusually for a book like this, covers both special and general relativity.
"Relativity and Common Sense," Hermann Bondi (1962, 1964 Dover paperback)
- mostly about special relativity.
"The Riddle of Gravitation," Peter Bergmann (1992)
- mostly on general relativity, a little on the technical side.
"Black Holes," J.-P. Luminet (1992)
- gives a lot of detail and gets fairly technical, but well-written, interesting, and authoritative (he knows the field).
Websites on extrasolar planets:
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov
- go to SCIENCE/Finding Planets and MISSIONS (e.g. SIM, TPF)
http://exoplanets.org/
- (But some of their pages aren't up to date.)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/planets/
- See the Catalog (item 2) for latest numbers.
Websites on solar neutrinos:
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/raydavis/research.htm
- Concise description of the original (Davis) solar neutrino experiment
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~superk/
- One of the best sites for general information on solar neutrinos; try their "tour" of several topics
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/sno/neutrino.html
- Part of the official Sudbury Neutrino Observatory website. Much of their material is highly technical,
except this introductory page. From their main page (delete the /sno/neutrino.html), click on items
listed under "SNO Web Pages on this Site," and you will get to the text of various press releases
written for non-experts.
http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb
- John Bahcall's home page at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Much of the posted material
is not for the layperson, but try looking up some of the "Popular Articles" on solar neutrinos. You will
recognize many of his figures from the slides in class.
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