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Transformation Between the Schwarzschild Coordinates and Local Inertial Coordinates

General Physics 2024-12-12 v1

Abstract

We present a transformation between the Schwarzschild coordinates and local inertial coordinates, and demonstrate the effect of gravitational bending of light near a massive body in a small region. When a photon is emitted from a point near the Earth's surface with an initial horizontal direction, its parabolic trajectory would have a vertical deflection that is about three times that of a non-relativistic Newtonian particle would trace.

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@article{arxiv.2412.07949,
  title  = {Transformation Between the Schwarzschild Coordinates and Local Inertial Coordinates},
  author = {Frank Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.07949},
  year   = {2024}
}
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