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Derivation · draft

Light Deflection and Gravitational Redshift

Statement

Deriving the bending of light by the Sun and the gravitational shift of spectral lines from null geodesics in the Schwarzschild metric.

Depends on

Schwarzschild Solution from Spherical Vacuum, Geodesic Equation from Extremal Proper Time

Used by

PU-403/L15 PU-403/L16