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Vortex Photo courtesy of NASAIn Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

 

Articles from AAPT Journals, edited by David Wolfe

 

The Special Theory of Relativity
Richard P. Feynman
Phys. Teach. 2 , 151 (1964) ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2350764

On Experimental Tests of the General Theory of Relativity
L. I. Schiff
Am. J. Phys. 28 , 340 (1960) ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1935800

Precession Tests of General Relativity—Source Theory Derivations
Julian Schwinger
Am. J. Phys. 42 , 507 (1974) ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1987763

Einstein and general relativity: Historical perspectives
S. Chandrasekhar
Am. J. Phys. 47, 212 (1979); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.11666

An elementary formalism for general relativity
Andrea A. diSessa
Am. J. Phys. 49, 401 (1981); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.12687

General relativity primer
Richard H. Price
Am. J. Phys. 50, 300 (1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.12853

General relativity, black holes, and cosmology: A course for nonscientists
Thomas A. Roman
Am. J. Phys. 54, 144 (1986); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.14711

Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity
Michael S. Morris and Kip S. Thorne
Am. J. Phys. 56, 395 (1988); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.15620

Spectral shifts in general relativity
Jayant V. Narlikar
Am. J. Phys. 62, 903 (1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.17679

General relativity before special relativity: An unconventional overview of relativity theory
Wolfgang Rindler
Am. J. Phys. 62 , 887 (1994) ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.17734

Gyroscope precession and general relativity
Barry R. Holstein
Am. J. Phys. 69, 1248 (2001); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1407251

Deflection of light to second order: A tool for illustrating principles of general relativity
Jeremiah Bodenner and Clifford M. Will
Am. J. Phys. 71, 770 (2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1570416

General relativity in the undergraduate physics curriculum
James B. Hartle
Am. J. Phys. 74, 14 (2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2110581

An intuitive approach to inertial forces and the centrifugal force paradox in general relativity
Rickard M. Jonsson
Am. J. Phys. 74, 905 (2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2198880

When action is not least for orbits in general relativity
C. G. Gray and Eric Poisson
Am. J. Phys. 79, 43 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3488986

Visualizing Interstellar's Wormhole
Oliver James, Eugénie von Tunzelmann, Paul Franklin and Kip S. Thorne
Am. J. Phys. 83, 486 (2015); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.4916949