Lean and Mean General Relativity

Lean and Mean General Relativity

A Lean and Mean Introduction to Modern General Relativity, lecture notes by Peter Hayman  Notes prepared for the introductory general relativity course PHYSICS 748 at The University of Auckland. They are designed to introduce general relativity to upper-year...
“Pop Newton” and teaching physics

“Pop Newton” and teaching physics

  The whole story Topics such as statistical physics, emergence and even climate dynamics can be presented by starting with two-body interactions on toy air-hockey tables. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Fer Gregory) The top two physics books on Goodreads are Stephen...
A Bigger Sky

A Bigger Sky

Amongst everything else that happened in 2023, a key anniversary of a huge leap in our understanding of the Universe passed largely unnoticed – the centenary of the realisation that not only was our Sun one of many stars in the Milky Way galaxy but that our galaxy was...