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Relativity

Textbook style pages giving details of the postulates of special relativity, Lorentz transforms, The Twin Paradox, and a history of special relativity.

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http://www.nobel.se/physics/educational/relativity/index.html

How Special Relativity Works

A brief description of how Special Relativity works.This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/relativity.htm

Special Relativity Animations

This is an archive of Special Relativity Quicktime animations at the Australian National University

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http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/qt/Welcome.html

How Blue Screen Special Effects Work

Explains how Blue Screen Special Effects for television and movies work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/blue-screen.htm

Einstein's Legacy

A very simple introduction to special relativity with a variety of resources

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http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/EinsteinLegacy.html

A More Practical Arrangement

Looks at the use of inertial coordinates in special relativity, with light propogating isotropically and c independent of the source's motion.

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http://mathpages.com/rr/s1-06/1-06.htm

Deriving Inter Kinematic Relations for Accel-ID

A brief but detailed article looking at special relativity by using 'proper acceleration' to eliminate the need to start with Lorentz Transformations.

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http://newton.umsl.edu/~run/derivate.html