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Plane Gravitational Waves, the Kinetic Energy of Free Particles and the Memory Effect

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It is shown that in the passage of a short burst of nonlinear plane gravitational wave, the kinetic energy of free particles may either decrease or increase. The decrease or… Click to show full abstract

It is shown that in the passage of a short burst of nonlinear plane gravitational wave, the kinetic energy of free particles may either decrease or increase. The decrease or increase of the kinetic energy crucially depends on the initial conditions (position and velocity) of the a particle. Therefore a plane gravitational wave may extract energy from a physical system.

Keywords: kinetic energy; energy; plane gravitational; energy free; free particles

Journal Title: Gravitation and Cosmology
Year Published: 2018

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