Studying null and time-like geodesics in the classroom

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 747-759

  Müller, Thomas ^a   Frauendiener, Jörg ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELATIVITY; TEACHING;

CARTESIANS; GENERAL RELATIVITY; INTERACTIVE TOOL; LOCAL REFERENCES; REFERENCE FRAME; SPACETIME; TIME-LIKE GEODESICS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79955430508     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/32/3/011     Document Type: Article

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