Gravity Waves Online Course

bgitac writes "CalTech has provided an online course on gravity waves by Kip Thorne. The course is described as "an introduction to all major aspects of gravitational waves." Prerequisites for this course are an understanding of classical mechanics. Weekly exercises and solutions as well as DVD quality videos of lectures are provided. The first couple lectures actually seem to be somewhat comprehendable!"

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They ought to be comprehandable...

[Eagle7]

The first couple lectures actually seem to be somewhat comprehendable!

I would suspect this is the case. Prof. Thorne has written an excellent book titled "Black Holes and Time Warps", which is an explanation of the theory and science of both, and thier history, and this book (1/5" thick) was understandble completely by me, and I've only taken 1 college physics course. Kip Thorne, like Richard Feynman, seems to have a knack for explaining complicated things very well.

a free book on general relativity

[bcrowell]

Here is a free online textbook on general relativity. Reviews on The Assayer would be welcome.

If you need something more basic

[codexus]

You can try the excellent series of free books Light and Matter. It's an excellent overview of elementary physics.

Note: The "Simple Nature" textbook on the same site covers the same material as "Light And Matter" with a little more depth added. So it might be the choice of many slashdotters.