An Analysis of the Effects of Massive Rotating Bodies on Orbits in the Weak Field Limit

Presentation Type

Poster/Portfolio

Presenter Major(s)

Physics

Mentor Information

Brett Bolen

Department

Physics

Location

Henry Hall Atrium 30

Start Date

10-4-2013 12:00 PM

End Date

10-4-2013 1:00 PM

Keywords

Physical Science

Abstract

Newtonian theories of gravity fail to describe certain minute but detectable phenomena. The existence of such phenomena spurred the development of improved theories of gravitation, the most popular of which is general relativity. This project involved mathematical examination of various implications of general relativity, including the perihelion precession of orbits, de Sitter precession, and Lense-Thirring precession. Expressions for these quantities were derived using both the Schwarzschild metric and PPN, parameterized post-Newtonian, formalism involving a single post-Newtonian term.

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An Analysis of the Effects of Massive Rotating Bodies on Orbits in the Weak Field Limit

Henry Hall Atrium 30

Newtonian theories of gravity fail to describe certain minute but detectable phenomena. The existence of such phenomena spurred the development of improved theories of gravitation, the most popular of which is general relativity. This project involved mathematical examination of various implications of general relativity, including the perihelion precession of orbits, de Sitter precession, and Lense-Thirring precession. Expressions for these quantities were derived using both the Schwarzschild metric and PPN, parameterized post-Newtonian, formalism involving a single post-Newtonian term.