https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14200-6
Regular Article
Post-Newtonian dynamics and orbital precession in Kerr-Newman field
School of Physics, Southwest Jiaotong University, 610031, Chengdu, China
* e-mail: wl@swjtu.edu.cn
Received:
18
June
2014
Revised:
23
August
2014
Accepted:
25
August
2014
Published online:
26
September
2014
We first present the post-Newtonian dynamics for a charged particle in the gravitational field of a rotating, charged and massive body. Based on the particle dynamics, we further derive analytically the orbital precession of the particle via calculating the rate of change of the Runge-Lenz vector.
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