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Spinning test particles and the motion of a gyroscope according to the nonsymmetric gravitation theory

J. W. Moffat*

J. R. Brownstein

  • W. W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4085

  • Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7

  • *Present address: Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7.
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Phys. Rev. D 41, 3111 – Published 15 May, 1990

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.41.3111

Abstract

The motion of spinning test particles is derived in the nonsymmetric gravitation theory using the field equations of matter and the methods of Papapetrou. The predictions for the precession of a torque-free gyroscope in the gravitational field of the Earth, Jupiter, and the Sun are obtained and compared with the predictions of Einstein's gravitation theory.

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Phys. Rev. D 41, 3111– Published 15 May, 1990
  • Received 27 November 1989

© 1990 American Physical Society

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