I have some information available that may be of use to you:

• Advertisement for the course.
• Syllabus for the course: 2000, 2002.
• Homework assignments and due dates.
• Classnotes in PDF, Postscript, and DVI formats.
• Ordering information for the text "Differential Geometry and Relativity Theory, An Introduction" by Richard L. Faber, Monographs and Textbooks in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 75, copyright 1983 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. (ISBN 0-8247-1749-X).
• Ordering infomation for the supplemental text "Relativity: The Special and the General Theory" by Albert Einstein, Random House.
• Odering information for the supplemental text "Cosmic Time Travel" by Barry Parker, Perseus Publishing.
• Bob Gardner's homepage.
• The Butthead seminar homepage (the seminar series of the ETSU Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences).

I also want to include a list of links to interesting sights with information on relativity and related topics (black holes, gravity waves, cosmology, etc.). I am open to suggestions! Here are a few:

• Andrew Hamilton's (of the University of Colorado) webpages:
  1. Special Relativity
  2. White Holes and Wormholes
  3. Falling into a Black Hole
  4. Other Relativity and Black Hole links
• Ripples in Spacetime webpage.
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) webpage.
• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) webpage.

Here are some references and links which may be of interest to you and follow from the presentation "The Shape of the Universe: Topology versus Geometry and Open versus Closed."

• The Shape of Space, by Jeffrey Weeks, Monographs and Textbooks in Pure and Applied Mathematics #249, 2002, Marcel Dekker, New York.
• The Shape of Space, (video) by The Geometry Center, 1995. Supplemental information is available on the Geometry Center's homepage.
• The Microwave Anisotropy Satellite (MAP) homepage.
• The Planck satellite homepage.

I have prepared a planetariun show which introduces much of the information we cover in this class. You can see a "virtual" version of it here.

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