Comment on “Determining the difference between local acceleration and local gravity: Applications of the equivalence principle to relativistic trajectories” [Am. J. Phys. 92(6), 444–449 (2024)]
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Editor's Note: A straightforward approximate algebraic procedure for introducing locally flat coordinates in a Schwarzschild spacetime is undertaken in this Comment on the recent leading order differential approach elucidated by Steven Balbus in the June 2024 issue. It is very likely that instructors even in special relativity could employ this technique and thereby obtain the correct deflection angle for light in an accelerated frame of reference.
Source: American Journal of Physics
DOI: 10.1119/5.0227213
Author: Frank Wang
Institutions: LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4404590120