I have been searching everywhere for the first order GR term that describes the gravitational force of a mass.
Could someone kindly show me the term that describes this?
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1$\begingroup$ I guess, you refer to PostNewton expansion. Nevertheless I don't know what you mean exactly with first order GR-term ? What is the quantity it should be first order of ? It would be also very useful to which metric (Schwarzschild?) you refer to. $\endgroup$– Frederic ThomasCommented Mar 6, 2020 at 12:38
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$\begingroup$ There are various links given in physics.stackexchange.com/q/814/123208 I won't vote to close this question as a duplicate of that one because most of the answers there are link-only answers, although one answer does give a brief sketch of how to calculate the precession. $\endgroup$– PM 2RingCommented Mar 6, 2020 at 15:50
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Look up the term "precession of the perehelion of Mercury's orbit" in any general relativity text.
The term "gravitational force" is a thorny one in general relativity, and it does not map well to the formalism of the theory, but as mentioned in the comments, the Post-Newtonian expansion is the simplest way to apply that concept.
answered Mar 6, 2020 at 14:54