Original scientific paper

Vacuum fields and the curvature of space

Priyabrata Mitra ; A. B. N. Seal College, Coochbehar 736101, West Bengal, India; (Present address : Assistant Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal, 6 Bhabani Datta Lane, Calcutta 700073, India)
Sudhansu Datta Majumdar ; S. N. Bose Institute of Physical Sciences, University College of Science, Calcutta 700009, India

Abstract

Weyl type solutions of the vacuum field due to spheroidal distribution of charged mass are investigated and expressions for the principal space curvatures are derived. Diagrams are drawn showing the variation of curvature with distance from the source. The problem of motion of test particles in the frame of an observer moving freely in a gravitational field is also discussed. It is shown how the space curvatures appearing in the equations of motion change when observations are made from different locally Galilean frames. It is further shown that a suitably rotating frame is more convenient for determining the motion of the particles than a locally Galilean frame.

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Hrčak ID:

331433

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/331433

Publication date:

5.4.1988.

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