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GeodesicViewer - A tool for exploring geodesics in the theory of relativity
Thomas Müller, Frank Grave
The GeodesicViewer realizes exocentric two- and three-dimensional illustrations of lightlike and timelike geodesics in the general theory of relativity. By means of an intuitive graphical user interface, all parameters of a spacetime as well as the initial conditions of the geodesics can be modified interactively. This makes the GeodesicViewer a useful instrument for the exploration of geodesics in four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes.
The most recent version of the GeodesicViewer can be downloaded here:
Version date: 25. Mar 2011
A brief documentation, some tutorials, and an installation instruction can be found here.
Note that the Windows binaries were tested only on 64bit 'Windows 7/XP' machines.
There is also an educational article about how the GeodesicViewer could be used in the classroom: click here.
- T. Müller, J. Frauendiener
Studying null and time-like geodesics in the classroom
European Journal of Physics 32, 747-759 (2011)
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/32/3/011
- T. Müller, F. Grave
GeodesicViewer - A tool for exploring geodesics in the theory of relativity
Computer Physics Communications 181, 413-419 (2010)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.10.010
Catalogue Identifier for the source code: AEFP_v1_0.
- The orbits in J. Levin and G. Perez-Giz, "A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits," Phys. Rev. D, 77, 103005, 2008
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.103005
can be reproduced by the GeodesicViewer. Please use the maxima-notebook for the parameter transformation and the GV-settings file.
A MathematicaDemonstration by D. Saroff, G. Clifton, and J. Levin can be found here.
Visualisierungsinstitut der Universität Stuttgart (VISUS)
Allmandring 19
70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Email: Thomas.Muellervis.uni-stuttgart.de
1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 57 // IV
70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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