Teaching Relativity

Education Research on General Relativity


Education Research on General Relativity/SpaceTimeTravel


Space-Time-Travel

Project web site: [https://www.spacetimetravel.org/]

Members: [https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/en/fb4/institutes/department-of-physics/|Department of Physics, University of Hildesheim]

Research Topics

Sector models for teaching general relativity

References

  • C Zahn and U Kraus, Sector models—a toolkit for teaching general relativity: I. Curved spaces and spacetimes, 2014 Eur. J. Phys. 35 055020, open access: https://www.spacetimetravel.org/sectormodels1/sectormodels1.html

  • C Zahn and U Kraus, Sector models—a toolkit for teaching general relativity: II. Geodesics, 2019 Eur. J. Phys. 40 015601, open access: https://www.spacetimetravel.org/sectormodels2/sectormodels2.html

  • U Kraus and C Zahn, Sector models—a toolkit for teaching general relativity: III. Spacetime geodesics, 2019 Eur. J. Phys. 40 015602, open access: https://www.spacetimetravel.org/sectormodels3/sectormodels3.html

Visualisation of relativity

Visualisation from a first person view

References

  • U Kraus, First-person visualizations of the special and general theory of relativity, 2008 Eur. J. Phys. 29 1, open access: https://www.spacetimetravel.org/ejpvis/ejpvis.html


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