schwarzschild-package: General Relativity in R

schwarzschild-packageR Documentation

General Relativity in R

Description

Visual display of the physics of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Provides R functionality to illustrate Schwarzschild black holes in a range of coordinate systems using mathematically accurate plotting routines; also creates animations of gravitational waves. For special relativity, see the 'lorentz' package.

Details

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Most of the package functionality is the definition of functions such as schwarzschild() which produce spacetime diagrams. The functions are intended to be called by inst/maker.R which produces annotated and correctly-sized PDF files.

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Author(s)

Robin K. S. Hankin [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5982-0415>)

Maintainer: Robin K. S. Hankin <hankin.robin@gmail.com>

Examples

schwarzschild()

RobinHankin/schwarzschild documentation built on Nov. 13, 2024, 12:58 p.m.