2009/05/27 by Kamal K. Nandi, Anwarul Islam
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1119/1.17934
published as Amer. J. Phys, 63, 251-256 (1995) · Uploaded on arxiv for the benefit of the researchers
arxiv created 2009/05/27 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13
We demonstrate that the Evans-Rosenquist formulation of the optical mechanical analogy, so successful in the application to classical problems, also describes the motion of massless particles in the Schwarzschild field of general relativity. It is possible to obtain the well known equations for light orbit and radar echo delay which account for two exclusive tests of Einstein's field equations. Some remarks including suggestions for future work are also added.