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Past exam of the relativity course of the University of Cambridge 2017 2 c Solution by
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Write and . The Schwarzschild tortoise coordinate satisfies and can be chosen as . Define the advanced time . Substituting into the Schwarzschild metric gives the ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates formThe coefficients are regular at and the radial-block determinant is , so the exterior Schwarzschild-time divergence is a coordinate singularity at the future event horizon. The physical curvature singularity at remains.
The two families of radial null trajectories in ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates obeyOutside the event horizon, the outgoing family increases ; at the horizon it generates the horizon itself; inside, even the outgoing future-directed family decreases . An infaller crosses the future horizon at finite and finite proper time. The chart makes this causal geometry visible without mistaking Schwarzschild coordinate time for the infaller's clock.
Radial null rays in advanced Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates
. Original plot of ingoing rays and outgoing rays in dimensionless units. Arrows indicate the future direction. Both families move toward smaller areal radius inside the Schwarzschild event horizon; this is an uncompactified coordinate diagram. Details. New to topics? Read the docs here!
