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Past exam of the relativity course of the University of Cambridge 2021 Section B 6 c Solution by
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For coordinates the inverse metric is , . Only is nonzero, giving the Christoffel symbolswith all remaining components zero.
On the specified constant- worldline, assume . The four-velocity is , , and its norm is , so is indeed proper time. The coordinate components are constant, but the covariant acceleration is nonzero:The proper acceleration of a static Rindler observer isThe acceleration has constant components in this accelerated chart and constant invariant magnitude. It is not a covariantly constant vector: its inertial-frame components change along the hyperbolic trajectory. For , the magnitude is , with the appropriate choice of future time orientation.
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