Gravitational Fields of Conical Mass Distributions

Abstract EN

The gravitational field of conical mass distributions is formulated using the general theory of relativity.

The gravitational metric tensor is constructed and applied to the motion of test particles and photons in this gravitational field.

The expression for gravitational time dilation is found to have the same form as that in spherical, oblate spheroidal, and prolate spheroidal gravitational fields and hence confirms an earlier assertion that this gravitational phenomena is invariant in form with various mass distributions.

It is shown using the pure radial equation of motion that as a test particle moves closer to the conical mass distribution along the radial direction, its radial speed decreases.