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| Directory: | Science / Physics / Relativity / Black_Holes / Thermodynamics |
| Title: | Hawking Radiation |
| Description: | A brief and accessible overview of Hawking radiation from the Physics FAQ; suitable for the general reader. Originally written by John Baez (University of California at Riverside); later modified by Ilja Schmelzer. |
| Location: | http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/BlackHoles/hawking.html |
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| Directory: | Science / Physics / Relativity / Courses_and_Tutorials |
| Title: | General Relativity Tutorial |
| Description: | Highly recommendable collection of interconnected web pages that serve as an informal introduction to general relativity. While some mathematics is used, the focus is on the key ideas. By John Baez (University of California at Riverside). |
| Location: | http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/gr/gr.html |
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| Directory: | Science / Physics / Relativity / Courses_and_Tutorials |
| Title: | Physics 7: Relativity, Space-time and Cosmology |
| Description: | Notes, syllabus and exercises for an undergraduate course taught by Jose Wudka at the University of California, Riverside, in 2000. The course itself starts out with Ancient cosmological models before working its way to Newtonian physics, special and general relativity. |
| Location: | http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/physics7.html |
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| Directory: | Science / Physics / Relativity / Special_Relativity |
| Title: | How Do You Add Velocities in Special Relativity? |
| Description: | Here is the formula for adding velocities in special relativity when motion occurs in a single direction. |
| Location: | http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/velocity.html |
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| Directory: | Science / Physics / Relativity / Special_Relativity |
| Title: | A Special Relativity Paradox: The Barn and the Pole |
| Description: | The answer to the famous barn and the pole paradox is that the two doors are never closed at the same time in the runner's frame of reference. |
| Location: | http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html |
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| Directory: | Science / Physics / Relativity / Time_Travel |
| Title: | Time Travel - Fact or Fiction? |
| Description: | Brief overview of physics issues related to time travel, including the question of conversation laws, general relativity, possible paradoxes, and the notion of tachyons. From the Physics FAQ; original by Jon J. Thaler. |
| Location: | http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/time_travel.html |
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| Directory: | Science / Physics / Relativity / Experiment_and_Observation |
| Title: | Experimental Basis of Special Relativity |
| Description: | A summary of tests of the foundations and predictions of special relativity, by Tom Roberts, Siegmar Schleif and others. Part of the Physics FAQ. |
| Location: | http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html |
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| Directory: | Science / Science_in_Society / The_Science_Wars |
| Title: | The Bogdanoff Affair |
| Description: | John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax. |
| Location: | http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanoff/ |
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| Directory: | Science / Social_Sciences / Anthropology / Academic_Departments / North_America / United_States / California |
| Title: | University of California at Riverside |
| Description: | Features information on the academic program. Offers faculty profiles, current research, news, and links to related sites. |
| Location: | http://anthropology.ucr.edu/ |
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| Directory: | Science / Social_Sciences / Archaeology / Methodology |
| Title: | Power is in the Details |
| Description: | Political Economy of World-Systems 2002 Conference article by Mitch Allen. The expansion of the Ancient Near Eastern core has been addressed by world-systems scholars for two decades now, since it represented the earliest documented case of strong core and peripheral differentiation. |
| Location: | http://www.irows.ucr.edu/conferences/pews02/pprallen.doc |
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