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Newton's Law of Gravitation, Gauss Law and GR
From One of My Unpublished Papers
$$\frac{d^2 x^{\alpha}}{d\tau^2}=-\Gamma^{\alpha}_{\beta \gamma}\frac{dx^{\beta}}{d\tau}\frac{dx^{\gamma}}{d\tau} \tag{1}$$
For radial motion in Schwarzschild’s ...
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Equivalence principle and radiation from falling particle
I am currently having a hard time solving a problem of GR from Lasenby's book.
I can't make it more clear than by quoting the exercise:
7.2 A charged object held stationary in a laboratory on the ...
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Why can't we think of free fall as upside down rocket?
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This rocket is accelerated (g) upwards then mass(m) falls on the floor.
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Freefall in/out of an enclosed environment
I've just been learning about Einstein, relativity, and the equivalence principle in Physics. I'm fascinated with the idea of being inside a free-falling enclosed environment (such as, e.g., rocket, ...
