Continue from here: References and Further Reading


Books

G. Gamow, Mr. Tompkins in Paperback. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1965).
Physical constants are adjusted so that relativity and quantum mechanics enter into the realm of human experience. Sounds familiar?

D.E. Mook and T. Vargish, Inside Relativity. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987).
A very readable introduction to special and general relativity. Has a number of diagrams to illustrate the aberration effect.

E.F. Taylor and J.A. Wheeler, Space-time Physics. (Freeman, New York, 1973).
Another readable though more advanced introduction to special relativity, containing many problems with worked solutions.

W.G.V. Rosser, Introductory Special Relativity. (Taylor & Francis, London, 1991).
An advanced treatment of special relativity, which also has a section on aberration containing explicit formulae.

R. Resnick and D. Halliday, Basic Concepts in Relativity. (Macmillan, New York, 1992).
Our discussion of time dilation and the twin paradox were based on the good treatment found in this introductory text.

Papers

G.D. Scott and M.R. Viner, The Geometrical Appearance of Large Objects Moving at Relativistic Speeds. American Journal of Physics 33 (1965) 534.
This paper was the first to derive the aberration effect using Lorentz transformations. Our calculations were based on this treatment.

Soo Wern Miin and Edward Teo, Visual Appearance of Objects Moving at Relativistic Speeds. Proceedings of Science Research Congress 1996, Singapore. [postscript source]
Contains derivation of the aberration equations used to generate the movies.

Yian Chee Hoo and Edward Teo, Computer-Aided Visualisation of Special Relativity. Proceedings of Science Research Congress 1996, Singapore. [postscript source]
Explains how the movies were created.

Web Sites

C-ship: Relativistic Ray Traced Images
The inspiration for this work; special relativity is explained using a space ship flying through a lattice galaxy. Our graphs for Lorentz contraction and time dilation were adapted from there.

The Internet Home of the Persistence of Vision Raytracer
Valuable source of information and image source files for POV-Ray, the ray-tracer of choice for this project.

Albert Einstein Online
Contains many links to Albert Einstein on the internet.

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