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This web site contains a detailed introduction to relativity. It integrates textual explanations of relativity concepts with diagrams and animations to clarify the material. It includes a historical perspective, the basics of spacetime, special relativity, and general relativity. The approach is non-mathematical throughout.
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<a href="https://psrc.aapt.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=3419">Salgado, Roberto B.. The Light Cone: an illuminating introduction to relativity. April 30, 2005.</a>
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R. Salgado, The Light Cone: an illuminating introduction to relativity (1995), <http://visualrelativity.com/LIGHTCONE/indexv.html>.
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Salgado, R. (2005, April 30). The Light Cone: an illuminating introduction to relativity. Retrieved December 11, 2024, from http://visualrelativity.com/LIGHTCONE/indexv.html
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Salgado, Roberto B.. The Light Cone: an illuminating introduction to relativity. April 30, 2005. http://visualrelativity.com/LIGHTCONE/indexv.html (accessed 11 December 2024).
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Salgado, Roberto B.. The Light Cone: an illuminating introduction to relativity. 1995. 30 Apr. 2005. 11 Dec. 2024 <http://visualrelativity.com/LIGHTCONE/indexv.html>.
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Author = "Roberto B. Salgado",
Title = {The Light Cone: an illuminating introduction to relativity},
Volume = {2024},
Number = {11 December 2024},
Month = {April 30, 2005},
Year = {1995}
}
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