The American Institute of Physics (AIP).

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/

The story of Special Relativity as we understand it today was written by Albert Einstein. This site recounts Einstein's childhood, his life and his work. In 1905, Einstein worked on three great ideas: Brownian Motion (kinetic atomic theory), the Photoelectric Effect (Quantum theory) and Special Relativity. He eventually received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his work on the Photoelectric Effect.

Program 42: The Lorentz Transformation. Logical extensions from the invariance of the speed of light. A thirty-minute on-demand streamed physics lecture / animated presentation hosted by Professor David Goodstein of the California Institute of Technology as part of the Annenberg / CPB series The Mechanical Universe and Beyond.

http://www.learner.org/progdesc
/index.html?uid=42

This site requires cable modem (384K) or better speed connection to the internet and free registration with Annenberg / CPB.

by Rob Salgado of the University of Syracuse Physics Department.

http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/

A nice tutorial and set of illustrations and JAVA applet allowing the viewing of images of models of spacetime bounded by the speed of light from the different frames of reference experienced by different observers. Visualization is key to conceptual understandings of this material.

Walter Fendt, Augsburg, Germany.

http://home.augsburg.baynet.
de/walter.fendt/physengl/
timedil1.htm

Fly a little green man (NASA-speak: LGM) at very high velocity and watch his moving clock and clocks in a stationary frame of reference.

Herr Fendt has a collection of physics applets on his site.

Program 43: Velocity and Time. The development of Eistein's theory of special relativity.The next program, number 44, develops his famous equation E = mc^2. A thirty-minute on-demand streamed physics lecture / animated presentation hosted by Professor David Goodstein of the California Institute of Technology as part of the Annenberg / CPB series The Mechanical Universe and Beyond.

http://www.learner.org/progdesc
/index.html?uid=42

This site requires cable modem (384K) or better speed connection to the internet and free registration with Annenberg / CPB.