Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 3 37D a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
WriteFor a static observer, . Conservation of the photon's Killing energy therefore gives the gravitational redshift between static Schwarzschild observersFor the stated distant observer, and , soAs , the observed wavelength tends to infinity: light emitted from a static source arbitrarily near the Schwarzschild event horizon is infinitely redshifted at infinity.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 ii Paper 3 37E b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Since and ,Substitution into the metric givesThese are Ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates. Every coefficient is finite at , and the determinant of the block is . Thus the apparent singularity there in Schwarzschild coordinates is a coordinate singularity; the metric extends smoothly across the Schwarzschild event horizon.