Relativity
on the world wide web maintained by John Baez, also included
under 'science texts' (but worth a double mention).
The
Light Cone Rob Salgado's 'illuminating' introduction to relativity.
The
Solar System (University of Tennessee, Astronomy 161) the basics,
presented in an accessible way (section 6 'The Development of Modern
Astronomy' is particularly useful: introductions to Aristotle, Kepler,
Galileo, Newton, etc.) The 'Astronomy
162' site is also worth looking at.
MacTutor
History of Mathematics archive (St Andrews) Accessible introductions
to a lot of useful geometry and physics (see 'History Topics: Alphabetical
Index')
American
Institute of Physics: Exhibits and Online Source Materials for History
of Physics and related fields
Astrophysics
in Cyberspace - the High Energy Astrophysics Science Research
Archive Center
The
Evolution of the Concepts of Space and Time Michael Bradie and
Comer Duncan (good historical introduction to all the main figures,
from antiquity on)
Jeff
Weeks' topology games a useful way of gaining an intuitive appreciation
of (very simple) multi-connected spaces.
Andrew
Hamilton's homepage featuring videos of what you might see if
you were to fall into a black hole, a 'tour' of STR (including a
web-based relativistic flight simulator), and simulations of four-dimensional
geometrical objects.
Warp
allows you to visualize relativistic phenomena that are generally
unobservable in the everyday world, e.g. changes in appearance that
an observer will see as an object reaches very high speed relative
to the observer.
Quantum
mechanics made simple a ThinkQuest site, an elementary introduction.
Time
Travel Steve Preston's site, with useful information and links.
Entropy
on the World Wide Web
Loop
quantum gravity theory Lee Smolin's site - plentiful links.
Imagine
the Universe! - a NASA educational site, the focus is usually
on recent discoveries in astronomy (high production values!)
The
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) League - self-explanatory
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