Tag Archive for: spherical symmetry

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Maxwell’s Equations in a Static, Spherically Symmetric Spacetime

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In the first article in this series, we looked at the Einstein Field Equations in a static, spherically symmetric spacetime. In this article, we are going…
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The Einstein Field Equation in a Static, Spherically Symmetric Spacetime

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This will be the first of several articles which will provide, for reference, useful equations for static, spherically symmetric spacetimes. This is a…
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Why Is Acceleration Due to Gravity a Constant?

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This question has popped up many times. So here is an attempt to address it.To answer this question at the elementary level, several assumptions will…
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Learn A Short Proof of Birkhoff’s Theorem

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Birkhoff's theorem is a very useful result in General Relativity, and pretty much any textbook has a proof of it. The one I first read was in Misner, Thorne,…