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GR Schwarzschild Light Wavefront Program
written by Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
educational validator: Bethany Zach
The GR Schwarzschild Light Wavefront program simulates the path of light emitted in all directions near a black hole using the Schwarzschild metric. The default setting is an explosion with an r-coordinate value of 6.0. The user can also see the effective potential of any of the light trajectories.

GR Schwarzschild Light Wavefront Parameter 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_light_wavefront.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.

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
= Lecture/Presentation
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© 2008 Wolfgang Christian
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PACSs:
01.50.hv
04.20.-q
07.05.Tp
Keywords:
black hole, general relativity, geodesic, relativistic orbits
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created May 23, 2008 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:
August 22, 2009 by Gregory Comer
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May 23, 2008
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR SCHWARZSCHILD LIGHT WAVEFRONT PROGRAM (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7229&DocID=394).
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR SCHWARZSCHILD LIGHT WAVEFRONT PROGRAM (2008), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7229&DocID=394>.
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Christian, W., Belloni, M., & Cox, A. (2008). GR Schwarzschild Light Wavefront Program [Computer software]. Retrieved December 7, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7229&DocID=394
Chicago Format
Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Schwarzschild Light Wavefront Program." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7229&DocID=394 (accessed 7 December 2024).
MLA Format
Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. GR Schwarzschild Light Wavefront Program. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 7 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7229&DocID=394>.
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@misc{ Author = "Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni and Anne Cox", Title = {GR Schwarzschild Light Wavefront Program}, Month = {May}, Year = {2008} }
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The General Relativity (GR) Package contains curricular materials for the teaching of general relativity using the GR Schwarzschild Light Wavefront Program.

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