• the Raychaudhuri equation, or Landau–Raychaudhuri equation, is a fundamental result describing the motion of nearby bits of matter. The equation is important...
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  • and cosmology. His most significant contribution is the eponymous Raychaudhuri equation, which demonstrates that singularities arise inevitably in general...
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  • field equations (EFE; also known as Einstein's equations) relate the geometry of spacetime to the distribution of matter within it. The equations were...
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  • in the formulation and proof of the singularity theorems is the Raychaudhuri equation, which describes the divergence θ {\displaystyle \theta } of a congruence...
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    The Friedmann equations, also known as the Friedmann–Lemaître (FL) equations, are a set of equations in physical cosmology that govern cosmic expansion...
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    aeroacoustic equation Landau–Raychaudhuri equation Landau–Zener formula Landau–Lifshitz model Landau–Lifshitz pseudotensor Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation...
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    Nagasaki in 1945, the equation E = mc2 became directly linked in the public eye with the power and peril of nuclear weapons. The equation was featured on page...
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    Maxwell's equations, or Maxwell–Heaviside equations, are a set of coupled partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form...
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  • presence of the Ricci tensor in the Raychaudhuri equation. Partly for this reason, the Einstein field equations propose that spacetime can be described...
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  • of solutions) to Einstein's equations. Rather, relations that hold true for all geodesics, such as the Raychaudhuri equation, and additional non-specific...
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  • {\displaystyle d_{p}=\int _{0}^{t_{0}}{\frac {c}{a(t)}}\,dt.} In this equation, a is the scale factor, c is the speed of light, and t0 is the age of the...
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  • solutions. In particular, exact vacuum solutions to the Einstein field equation of general relativity, augmented by the trivial scalar field ϕ = 1 {\displaystyle...
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  • Einstein field equations Linearized gravity Post-Newtonian formalism Raychaudhuri equation Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation Ernst equation Phenomena Black...
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  • defining feature is its use of the Einstein field equations. The solutions of the field equations are metric tensors which define the topology of the...
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    Friedmann–Lemaître (FL). When combined with Einstein's field equations the metric gives the Friedmann equation which has been developed into the Standard Model of...
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    The equation t′ = constant defines a "line of simultaneity" in the (x′, t′) coordinate system for the second (moving) observer, just as the equation t =...
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    confined to configurations with sufficiently high symmetry for Einstein's equations to be solvable explicitly, and there was doubt about whether such cases...
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  • Elimination of the variables D and L from these three equations results in: Time dilation equation Δ t ′ = Δ t 1 − v 2 c 2 = γ Δ t {\displaystyle \Delta...
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    1994, the Alcubierre drive is based on a solution of Einstein's field equations. Since those solutions are metric tensors, the Alcubierre drive is also...
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    Hamiltonian, and thereby write the equations of motion for general relativity in the form of Hamilton's equations. In addition to the twelve variables...
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  • and frequency of a gravitational wave are related by the equation c = λf, just like the equation for a light wave. For example, the animations shown here...
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    discussing the physics implied by these equations since 1887. Early in 1889, Oliver Heaviside had shown from Maxwell's equations that the electric field surrounding...
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    months later, Karl Schwarzschild found a solution to the Einstein field equations that describes the gravitational field of a point mass and a spherical...
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    arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical...
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  • metric is an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity; these equations are highly non-linear, which makes exact solutions...
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  • In astrophysics, the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff (TOV) equation constrains the structure of a spherically symmetric body of isotropic material which is...
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    Analytic Extension of the Symmetry Axis of Kerr's Solution of Einstein's Equations". Physical Review. 141 (4): 1242–1247. Bibcode:1966PhRv..141.1242C. doi:10...
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    deviations from equivalence to be very small. In classical mechanics, Newton's equation of motion in a gravitational field, written out in full, is: inertial mass...
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    In 1929, Weyl proposed an equation, known as the Weyl equation, for use in a replacement to the Dirac equation. This equation describes massless fermions...
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  • around the star onto three-dimensional (3-D) space. The full geodesic equation is d 2 x μ d s 2 + Γ μ α β d x α d s d x β d s = 0   {\displaystyle {d^{2}x^{\mu...
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