Here is a list of online books about Relativity in various formats available for free :



An Advanced Course in General Relativity

by Eric Poisson, 2002, 190 pages, 1.5MB, PDF

Advanced General Relativity

by Neil Lambert, 2009, 56 pp, 290KB, PDF

Advanced General Relativity

by Sergei Winitzki, 2007, 193 pages, 2.8MB, PDF

The Age of Einstein

by Frank W. K. Firk, 2003, 79 pages, 150KB, PDF

All Spacetimes Beyond Einstein

by Frederic P. Schuller, 2011, 44 pp, 420KB, PDF

Begin the Adventure: How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070

by H. B. Tilton, F. Smarandache, 2010, 147 pages, 4.4MB, PDF

Cambridge Relativity

University of Cambridge, 1996

Complex Geometry of Nature and General Relativity

by Giampiero Esposito, 1999, 229 pages, PS/PDF

Easy Lessons in Einstein

by Edwin Emery Slosson, 1920

Einstein for Everyone

by John D. Norton, 2007

The Einstein Theory of Relativity

by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, 1920

Electric and Magnetic Aspects of Gravitational Theories

by Francois Dehouck, 2011, 240 pp, 1.8MB, PDF

Emergent Models for Gravity: an overview

by L. Sindoni, 2011, 54 pp, 460KB, PDF

The Experimental Status of Special and General Relativity

by Orfeu Bertolami, Jorge Paramos, 2012, 36 pp, 340KB, PDF

Foundations of Tensor Analysis for Students of Physics and Engineering With an Introduction to the Theory of Relativity by Joseph C. Kolecki, 2005, 92 pp, 1MB, PDF

From aether theory to Special Relativity

by Rafael Ferraro, 2013, 24 pp, 590KB, PDF

From Classical To Quantum Gravity: Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity

by Kristina Giesel, Hanno Sahlmann, 2012, 55 pp, 630KB, PDF



General Covariance and the Foundations of General Relativity

by John D Norton, 1993, 71 pp, 460KB, PDF

General Relativity

by Benjamin Crowell, 2010, 334 pages, 13MB, PDF

The General Relativity Tutorial

by John Baez, 2006

General Relativity Without Calculus

by Jose Natario, 2012, 120 pp, 1.8MB, PDF

Gravitational Wave Detection by Interferometry

by Matthew Pitkin, Stuart Reid, Sheila Rowan, Jim Hough, 2011, 80 pages, 2.5MB, PDF

Gravitational Wave Experiments and Early Universe Cosmology

by Michele Maggiore, 2000, 100 pages, 1MB, PDF

Gravitational Waves

by Alessandra Buonanno, 2007, 50 pages, 580KB, PDF

Gravitational Waves and Black Holes: an Introduction to General Relativity

by J.W. van Holten, 1997, 97 pages, 650KB, PDF

Gravitational Waves, Sources, and Detectors

by Bernard F Schutz, Franco Ricci, 2010, 82 pages, 880KB, PDF

Henri Poincare and Relativity Theory

by A. A. Logunov, 2005, 254 pages, 1.1MB, PDF

Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity

by Stefan Waner, 2005, 138 pages, 1.7MB, PDF

Introduction to General Relativity

by Gerard ‘t Hooft, 2007, 68 pages, 400KB, PDF

Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity

by Simone Mercuri, 2010, 91 pages, 690KB, PDF

Introduction to Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity

by Thomas Thiemann, 2001, 303 pages, 2.7MB, PDF

An Introduction to Quantum Cosmology

by D.L. Wiltshire, 2003, PS/PDF

Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect

by Ted Jacobson, 2004, 59 pages, 670KB, PDF

Introduction to Supergravity

by Henning Samtleben, 2007, 29 pp, 270KB, PDF

An introduction to the mechanics of black holes

by Geoffrey Compere, 2006, 35 pages, PDF/PS

Introduction to the Theory of Black Holes

by Gerard ‘t Hooft, 2009, 49 pages, 510KB, PDF

An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity

by L. Bolton, 1921

Lecture Notes in General Relativity

by Sergiu Klainerman, 380KB, PDF

Lecture Notes on General Relativity

by Sean M. Carroll, 1997, 238 pages, 1.5MB, PDF

Lecture Notes on Special Relativity

by J D Cresser, 2005, 70 pages, 810KB, PDF

Many-Minds Relativity

by Claes Johnson, 2008, 219 pages, 2.4MB, PDF

Mass and Angular Momentum in General Relativity

by J.L. Jaramillo, E. Gourgoulhon, 2010, 41 pp, 360KB, PDF

Modern Relativity

by David Waite, 2005

The Nature of Space and Time

by Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, 1994, 61 pages, PDF

Neutrosophic Methods in General Relativity

by D. Rabounski, F. Smarandache, L. Borissova, 2005, 80 pages, 450KB, PDF

A No-Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity

by Sean M. Carroll, 2001, 24 pp, 160KB, PDF

Notes on General Relativity

by Matt Visser, 2010, 370 pages, 1.5MB, PDF

Numerical hydrodynamics in general relativity

by Jose A. Font, 2000, 105 pages, PDF/PS

Post-Newtonian Theory for the Common Reader

by Eric Poisson, 2007, 174 pages, 1.2MB, PDF

Quantum Einstein Gravity

by Martin Reuter, Frank Saueressig, 2012, 87 pp, 720KB, PDF

Quantum Gravity

edited by Rodrigo Sobreiro, 2012, 100 pp, 1.8MB, PDF

Quantum Statistical Field Theory in Gravitation and Cosmology

by B. L. Hu, 1994, 38 pages, 370 KB, PDF

Recent Developments in Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities

by Pankaj S. Joshi, Daniele Malafarina, 2012, 89 pp, 990KB, PDF

Reflections on Relativity

MathPages, 691 pages

Relativistic Quantum Dynamics

by Eugene V. Stefanovich, 2008, 689 pages, 4.4MB, PDF

Relativity

by Arthur W. Conway, 1915

Relativity For Physics Students

by G. B. Jeffery, 1924



Relativity: The Special and General Theory

by Albert Einstein, 1924, 56 pages, HTML/PDF/DOC

Relativity Without Tears

by Z. K. Silagadze, 2007, 78 pages, PS/PDF

Selected solutions of Einstein’s field equations

by Jiri Bicak, 2000, 126 pages, PS/PDF

Semi-Riemann Geometry and General Relativity

by Shlomo Sternberg, 2003, 251 pages, 1MB, PDF

Singularities and Quantum Gravity

by Martin Bojowald, 2007, 41 pp, 730KB, PDF

Space: from Euclid to Einstein

by Roy McWeeny, 2011, 66 pp, 720KB, PDF

Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory

by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, 1920, 219 pages, 1.1MB, PDF

Space – Time – Matter

by Hermann Weyl, 1922, 517 pp, 1.8MB, PDF

Spacetime and Fields

by Nikodem J. Poplawski, 2009, 114 pages, 890KB, PDF

Spacetime Geometry and General Relativity

by Neil Lambert, 2011, 48 pp, 360KB, PDF

Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future

by Dr. Kip Thorne, Caltech, 1999 [AUDIO]

Spacetime Wrinkles

The University of Illinois, 1995

Special Relativity

by Andrew Hamilton, 1999



Special Relativity

Wikibooks, 2008, 91 pages, 1.4MB, PDF

Special Relativity and Geometry

by C. E. Harle, R. Bianconi, 1999, 70 pages, 540KB, PS

The Special Theory of Relativity

by J D Cresser, 2003, 44 pp, 340KB, PDF

Spin Foam Models for Quantum Gravity

by Alejandro Perez, 2003, 80 pages, 870KB, PDF

Tensors and Relativity

by Peter Dunsby, 2004

The Theory of General Relativity and Gravitation

by Ludwik Silberstein, 1922, 160 pp, multiple formats

The Theory Of Gravity

by A. A. Logunov, 2002, 255 pages, PDF/PS

The Theory of the Relativity of Motion

by Richard Chace Tolman, 1917, 275 pages, 1.4MB, PDF

Today’s Take on Einstein’s Relativity

edited by H. B. Tilton, F. Smarandache, 2005, 1.9MB, PDF

Vector Analysis and the Theory of Relativity

by Francis Dominic Murnaghan, 1922

