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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: 61
Issue: 8
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