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Past exam of the general relativity and cosmology and condensed matter physics paper of Part B of the physics course of the University of Oxford / 2011 / Section V / 1 / Unlettered 3 / Solution by

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The official notes, PDF pp. 8–9, handwritten pp. 2–3 calculate the geostationary satellite/station proper time ratio, including the equatorial station's rotation. They explicitly correct the formula printed in the paper; the printed target is not the first-order result of the stated Schwarzschild metric.

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