GR Kerr Wavefront Program Documents
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Main Document
GR Kerr Wavefront Program
written by
Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
The GR Kerr Wavefront program simulates the path of light emitted in all directions in the equatorial plane near a rotating black hole using the Kerr metric. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the gr_kerr_wavefront.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. The default setting is a wavefront with an initial r value of 3.0 near a black hole with an angular momentum, J/M = .75.
GR Kerr Wavefront program 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.
- Download gr_kerr_wavefront.jar - 565kb Java Archive File
Last Modified May 1, 2009
Supplemental Documents (2)
GR Kerr Wavefront Documentation
A pdf document that briefly describes the GR Kerr Wavefront program. It describes how to use the gr_kerr_wavefront.jar file and contains short tutorial exercises and for use with the gr_kerr_wavefront.jar file.
- Download gr_kerr_wavefront.pdf - 109kb Adobe PDF Document
Published May 1, 2009
Last Modified May 1, 2009
This file is included in the full-text index.
GR Kerr Wavefront Distribution
The materials distributed in this zip file are in support of the GR Kerr Wavefront program. This distribution contains the GR Kerr Wavefront program, documentation and exercises.
- Download gr_kerr_wavefront_distribution.zip - 601kb Compressed File
Published May 1, 2009
Last Modified May 1, 2009
