 Angular velocity of a circular Schwarzschild geodesic (source code)

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= Angular velocity of a circular Schwarzschild geodesic
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A circular timelike geodesic of Schwarzschild radius $r>3M$ has coordinate angular velocity
$$
\frac{d\phi}{dt}=\sqrt{\frac{M}{r^3}}.
$$
Its coordinate period is $2\pi\sqrt{r^3/M}$.

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