1997/10/31 by Robert T Jantzen, Donato Bini, Paolo Carini
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
published as Proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Tsvi Piran, Editor, World Scientific, Singapore, 1998, Vol. A, pp. 376-397 · References corrected and updated, one equation (9) corrected, 22 pages, latex, 3 included pictex figures, needs World Scientific proceedings style file mprocl.sty, and prepictex.tex, pictex.tex, postpictex.tex (all available at http://xxx.lanl.gov), to appear in the Proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (Tsvi Piran, Ed.), World Scientific, 1998
The somewhat fragmented body of current literature analyzing the properties of test particle motion in static and stationary spacetimes and in general spacetimes is pulled together and clarified using the framework of gravitoelectromagnetism.