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Anonymous
February 2018
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Introduction
This paper is an attempt to explain the angular momentum and the formation of
black holes through Einstein’s equivalence principle. I’m currently a student in
high school, working through mathematics and physics. I would like to state this
is a very unrealistic frame of reference for relativistic angular velocity, therefore
this paper is far from perfect, and a lot of the formulas that are derived are not
complete, therefore will not truly apply well in the real world, however this was
more of a fun project I did.. But I appreciate that you’ve found interest in this
paper. All feedback is appreciated. Thank you to everyone who I’ve met online
and offline who have supported me in my learning journey, I have not stopped
learning, and never will stop.
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Table of Contents
1. What is the Equivalence Principle? (Pg. 4)
2. Deriving an Equation for the Resulting Behavior (Pg. 5)
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Chapter 1
What is the Equivalence Principle?
The equivalence principle is one, out of several concepts that deals with the
equivalence of gravitational, and inertial mass. Where inertial mass is the
resistance to acceleration while force is applied. And the gravitational mass is the
force on due to the gravitational field of .
The main idea behind this states that inertial mass, multiplied by
acceleration, is equivalent to the intensity of the gravitational field multiplied by
the gravitational mass. Hence obvious inertial mass is proportional to gravitational
mass.
What does this mean? Well, in SR (Special Relativity), if the object is rotating,
the inertial mass increases, causing it to increase in gravitational mass. We can
write a proportion for this.
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Chapter 2
Deriving an Equation for the Resulting Behavior
We now understand the equivalence principle, and the behavior of it. We can now
put it together and derive a formula. Let’s take a look at deriving the
Schwarzschild radius (how small something can be before it collapses into a black
hole) formula first, this will give us a great start.
And
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Now divide by on each side, leaving us with,
Now we can convert this into the Schwarzschild radius formula. By setting to
which becomes due to the removal of the square root. Why do we do this?
Because in SR, cannot reach the speed of light, hence the reason we set to .
Also if is the speed of light then the object is a black hole. Which will conclude
in this equation.
But we run into a problem one might notice. We didn’t derive it relatively. It
doesn’t really matter in this scenario, as this was just an example, but we’ll get to
deriving a formula pyramid. This will be derived through general relativity. Let us
equate these two equations together.
Hence after completing the algebra, this would simplify into the much more
readable equation pyramid,
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