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GR Schwarzschild Light Program
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Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
educational validator: Bethany Zach
The GR Schwarzschild Light program simulates the path of light around a black hole using the Schwarzschild metric. It also displays a plot of the effective potential of light in the vicinity of a black hole. The default setting is a light trajectory that escapes the black hole.
GR Schwarzschild Light 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.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
GR Schwarzschild Light DocumentationA pdf document that briefly describes the GR Schwarzschild Light program. It describes how to use the gr_schwarzschild_light.jar file and contains short tutorial exercises for use with the gr_schwarzschild_light.jar file. download 98kb .pdf Published: May 23, 2008 
GR Schwarzschild Light DistributionThe materials distributed in this zip file are in support of the GR Schwarzschild Light program. This distribution contains the GR Schwarzschild Light program, documentation and exercises, and additional parameter sets (xml files) download 633kb .zip Published: May 23, 2008
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=7226">Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Schwarzschild Light Program."</a>
AIP Format
W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR SCHWARZSCHILD LIGHT PROGRAM (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7226&DocID=385).
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W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox, Computer Program GR SCHWARZSCHILD LIGHT PROGRAM (2008), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7226&DocID=385>.
APA Format
Christian, W., Belloni, M., & Cox, A. (2008). GR Schwarzschild Light Program [Computer software]. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7226&DocID=385
Chicago Format
Christian, W, M. Belloni, and A. Cox. "GR Schwarzschild Light Program." https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7226&DocID=385 (accessed 11 October 2024).
MLA Format
Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. GR Schwarzschild Light Program. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 11 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7226&DocID=385>.
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@misc{
Author = "Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni and Anne Cox",
Title = {GR Schwarzschild Light Program},
Month = {May},
Year = {2008}
}
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%A Wolfgang Christian %A Mario Belloni %A Anne Cox %T GR Schwarzschild Light Program %D May 23, 2008 %U https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7226&DocID=385 %O application/java
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%0 Computer Program %A Christian, Wolfgang %A Belloni, Mario %A Cox, Anne %D May 23, 2008 %T GR Schwarzschild Light Program %8 May 23, 2008 %U https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7226&DocID=385 Disclaimer: ComPADRE offers citation styles as a guide only. We cannot offer interpretations about citations as this is an automated procedure. Please refer to the style manuals in the Citation Source Information area for clarifications.
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