Polar gyroscopic tests of general relativity
- 15 May 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 31 (10) , 2672-2673
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.31.2672
Abstract
Gyroscopic precession at the terrestrial poles is treated using the original Kerr metric in Cartesian coordinates and an isometry method for treating accelerating observers. The results corroborate predictions for gyroscopic precession obtained by gravitomagnetic methods and reinforce recent suggestions that ground-based precession experiments may be viable.Keywords
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