written by
Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
educational validator:
Bethany Zach
The GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy 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. The user can change the orbiter's state by entering new energy and angular momentum values and dragging the marker to different positions. The default configuration is a circular orbit.
GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy 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_particle_energy.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.
GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy Documentation
A pdf document that briefly describes the GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy program. It describes how to use the gr_schwarzschild_particle_energy.jar file and contains short tutorial exercises for use with the gr_schwarzschild_particle_energy.jar file. download 114kb .pdf
Published: May 23, 2008
GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy Distribution
The materials distributed in this zip file are in support of the GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy program. This distribution contains the GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy program, documentation, exercises, and additional parameter sets (xml files) download 660kb .zip
Published: May 23, 2008
W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR SCHWARZSCHILD PARTICLE ENERGY PROGRAM (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7230&DocID=397).
W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR SCHWARZSCHILD PARTICLE ENERGY PROGRAM (2008), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7230&DocID=397>.
Christian, W., Belloni, M., & Cox, A. (2008). GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy Program [Computer software]. Retrieved September 15, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7230&DocID=397
Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy Program." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7230&DocID=397 (accessed 15 September 2024).
Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. GR Schwarzschild Particle Energy Program. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 15 Sep. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7230&DocID=397>.
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