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Classical interpretations of relativistic precessions |
| Sankar Hajra |
| Indian Physical Society, 2A & 2B Raja S. C. Mallick Road, Calcutta-700 032, India |
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Abstract Relativists have exposed various precessions and developed ingenious experiments to verify those phenomena with extreme precisions. The Gravity Probe B mission was designed to study the precessions of the gyroscopes rotating round the Earth in a nearly circular near-Earth polar orbit to demonstrate the geodetic effect and the Lense-Thirring effect as predicted by the general relativity theory. In this paper, we show in a very simple and novel analysis that the precession of the perihelion of Mercury, the Thomas precession, and the precession data (on the de Sitter and Lense-Thirring precessions) collected from the Gravity Probe B mission could easily be explained from classical physics, too.
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Received: 21 July 2013
Revised: 07 September 2013
Accepted manuscript online:
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PACS:
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04.80.Cc
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(Experimental tests of gravitational theories)
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03.50.De
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(Classical electromagnetism, Maxwell equations)
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45.20.D-
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(Newtonian mechanics)
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Corresponding Authors:
Sankar Hajra
E-mail: sankarhajra@yahoo.com
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| About author: 04.80.Cc; 03.50.De; 45.20.D- |
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Sankar Hajra Classical interpretations of relativistic precessions 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 040402
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