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An Overview of Schwarzschild’s Approach to Black Holes

An Overview of Schwarzschild’s Approach to Black Holes. By Trey Paul and Chuck Bryant. Black Holes. Definition: A celestial object created in the collapse of a very massive star that has a gravitational field so strong that light cannot escape it. Normal Curvature of Spacetime Due to Mass.

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An Overview of Schwarzschild’s Approach to Black Holes

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  1. An Overview of Schwarzschild’s Approach to Black Holes By Trey Paul and Chuck Bryant

  2. Black Holes • Definition: A celestial object created in the collapse of a very massive star that has a gravitational field so strong that light cannot escape it

  3. Normal Curvature of Spacetime Due to Mass

  4. Karl Schwarzschild • Born to a Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany • By age 16 had published a paper on the orbits of stars • He received his doctorate at the University of Munich • Known for his radius

  5. Metrics ∆s ² = (1− 2GM/c²R)c²∆t² − [1/(1-2GM/c²R)]∆R² − R²(∆θ² + sin²θ∆φ²) 2GM / c² ≡ Rs

  6. Works Cited "Embedding Diagram." Philosophy and History of Science, Kyoto University. 30 Nov 2007 <http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/embed.diag.html>. Hawley, John F., and Katherine A. Holcomb. Foundations of Modern Cosmology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. O'Connor, J.J.. "Karl Schwarzschild." Schwarzschild Biography. 30 Nov 2007 <http://history.mcs.standrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schwarzschild.html>.

  7. Works Cited "Relativity." Lecture 15. 30 Nov 2007 <http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/bmendez/ay10/2002/notes/lec15.html>. Thorne, Kip S.. Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.

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