Introduction to Relativity and Spacetime Physics (MIT 8.033)
by Scott Hughes · MIT OpenCourseWare
A thorough treatment of special relativity with an introduction to the core ideas of general relativity, pitched at sophomores after first-year physics. Detailed prose lecture notes that read as an open textbook teach spacetime diagrams, four-vectors, relativistic dynamics and curved spacetime.
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