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GR Seeing Program
written by Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
The GR Seeing program The GR Seeing program simulates the path of light around a black hole using the Schwarzschild metric. It also shows a plot of the proper time and angle the light is observed by a shell observer in order to demonstrate what a shell observer would see when looking at light sources near a black-hole.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the gr_seeing.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.

GR Seeing is part of a suite of Open Source Physics programs that model aspects of General Relativity.  Other programs provide additional visualizations.  They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or General Relativity.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.
2 supplemental documents are available
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Fundamentals
= Relativity
Relativity
- General Relativity
= Black Holes
- Upper Undergraduate
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
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License:
This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license. Additional information is available.
Rights Holder:
Wolfgang Christian
PACSs:
01.50.hv
04.20.-q
07.05.Tp
Keywords:
black hole, general relativity, geodesic, open source physics, osp
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created May 1, 2009 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:
August 22, 2009 by Gregory Comer
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May 1, 2009
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR SEEING PROGRAM (2009), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8857&DocID=1176).
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR SEEING PROGRAM (2009), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8857&DocID=1176>.
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Christian, W., Belloni, M., & Cox, A. (2009). GR Seeing Program [Computer software]. Retrieved December 7, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8857&DocID=1176
Chicago Format
Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Seeing Program." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8857&DocID=1176 (accessed 7 December 2024).
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Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. GR Seeing Program. Computer software. 2009. Java 1.5. 7 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8857&DocID=1176>.
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@misc{ Author = "Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni and Anne Cox", Title = {GR Seeing Program}, Month = {May}, Year = {2009} }
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