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Prescott

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Document Type

Article

Publication/Presentation Date

12-2004

Abstract/Description

The coordinate conditions for three exact solutions for the metric components of a coordinate system with constant acceleration or of a static plane symmetric gravitational field are presented. First, the coordinate condition that the acceleration of light is constant is applied to the field equations to derive the metric of a coordinate system of constant acceleration. Second, the coordinate conditions required to produce the metrics of Rindler and Lass are applied to the field equations to calculate the components of these two metrics and the coordinate velocities and coordinate accelerations for light of these two metrics are compared to the coordinate system of constant acceleration.

Additional Information

Dr. Jones was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle at the time this paper was written.

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