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The science behind gravitational lensing
A new project from Zooniverse looks to track gravitational lenses in images. Here's the science behind how they happen.
Gravitational Potential Energy
Gravitational potential energy is energy an object possesses because of its position in a gravitational field.
Elementary Einstein: Gravitational waves
The basics of gravitational waves explained in simple terms.
Gravitational waves
Short article about gravitational waves and how they might be detected, including by the LISA mission.
Gravitational Waves - Einstein's elusive children
Short article on the hunt for gravitational waves - distortions or the warping of the very fabric of space-time, which Einstein described as different aspects of reality itself.
Gravitational Fields
A good revision page for UK A Level, covers topics such as field strength and shapes, potential energy and escape velocity.
Gravitation
A program which models the gravitational effects of different bodies in different systems. This program is simple and shows the effect of gravity very well.
Gravitational Acceleration in Schwarzschild Coordinates
Derivation of acceleration for a particle in a radial orbit in Schwarzchild geometry which, surprisingly, depends on its trajectory.
Einstein Online
A great site about Einstein's ideas with lots of information on special and general relativity, cosmology, gravitational waves, black holes.
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