Note on motion in the schwarzschild field

1973
3 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 8 (1973) 2360-2362

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Abstract: (APS)
It is often said that the speed of a freely falling test particle in the Schwarzschild field approaches the speed of light at the Schwarzschild radius. It is shown that this is not the case.
  • relativity theory
  • mechanics