An Alternative Calculation of Light Bending and Time Delay by a Gravitational Field -- from Wolfram Library Archive

Title

An Alternative Calculation of Light Bending and Time Delay by a Gravitational Field

Authors

W. Bruckman

E. Esteban

Journal / Anthology

American Journal of Physics

Year:

1993

Volume:

Issue:

Page range:

750-754

Description

An alternative method is proposed to calculate light bending and time delay in weak and strong gravitational fields. This approach is elementary, straightforward and uses Mathematica, a computer algebra system, to perform the numerical calculations.

Subject

Science > Physics > Astrophysics