written by Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
educational validator: Bethany Zach

The GR Schwarzschild Particle program simulates orbits of objects around a black hole using the Schwarzschild metric.  It also displays a plot of the effective potential well in which the orbiting particle resides.  

GR Schwarzschild Particle is part of a suite of Open Source Physics programs that model aspects of General Relativity.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the gr_schwarzschild.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. Other programs provide additional visualizations.  They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or General Relativity.

• Download gr_schwarzschild_particle.jar - 615kb Java Archive File

Published May 1, 2008
Last Modified May 23, 2008

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A pdf document that briefly describes the GR Schwarzschild Particle program. It describes how to use the gr_schwarzschild_particle.jar file and contains short tutorial exercises and for use with the gr_schwarzschild_particle.jar file.

• Download gr_schwarzschild_particle.pdf - 108kb Adobe PDF Document

Published May 1, 2008
Last Modified May 1, 2009

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The materials distributed in this zip file are in support of the GR Schwarzschild Particle program. This distribution contains the GR Schwarzschild Particle program, documentation and exercises.

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Published May 1, 2008
Last Modified May 23, 2008

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