Publications

Below is a list of my published articles, as well as my licentiate and doctorate theses. The links to the article pdf files point to author generated versions of the articles rather than the final published versions (due to copyright issues). These articles are however very similar to the final published versions of the articles. Links to the abstracts of the published electronic versions of the articles are also included.

Optical geometry across the horizon
Rickard Jonsson, Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 77
2006CQG-Jonsson23p77.pdf
Copyright © IOP Publishing Ltd (2006)

Generalizing optical geometry
Rickard Jonsson, Hans Westman, Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 61
2006CQG-Jonsson23p61.pdf
Copyright © IOP Publishing Ltd (2006)

A covariant formalism of spin precession with respect to a reference congruence
Rickard Jonsson, Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 37
2006CQG-Jonsson23p37.pdf
Copyright © IOP Publishing Ltd (2006)

Inertial forces and the foundations of optical geometry
Rickard Jonsson, Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 1
2006CQG-Jonsson23p1.pdf
Copyright © IOP Publishing Ltd (2006)

Gyroscope precession in special and general relativity from basic principles
Rickard Jonsson
The following article appeared in Am. Journ. Phys. (2007) 75 pp. 463-471, and may be found at AIP.
2007AJP-Jonsson75p463.pdf
Comment: Includes an addendum.
Copyright (2005) American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.

An intuitive approach to inertial forces and the centrifugal force paradox in general relativity
Rickard Jonsson
The following article appeared in Am. Journ. Phys. (2006) 74 pp. 905-916, and may be found at AIP.
2006AJP-Jonsson74p905.pdf
Copyright (2005) American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Visualizing curved spacetime
Rickard Jonsson
The following article appeared in Am. Journ. Phys. (2005) 73 pp. 248-260, and may be found at AIP.
2005AJP-Jonsson73p248.pdf
Copyright (2005) American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Embedding spacetime via a geodesically equivalent metric of Euclidean signature
Rickard Jonsson, Gen. Relativ. Gravit. (2001) 33 pp. 1207-1235
2001GRG-Jonsson33p1207.pdf
Comment: As compared to the published version there are corrections to Eqs. 46-49 (no impact on the discussion) and minor cosmetical updates in the figures. An addendum is also included.
The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com

Licentiate thesis
Rickard Jonsson, presented 23/5-2001
lic.pdf
Comment: The front and the back covers are excluded, as is the appended paper. Note that the content of the licentiate thesis is mainly included in the doctorate thesis and the published articles. The notable exception is chapter 6, about Epstein embeddings.

Doctorate thesis
Rickard Jonsson, presented 25/10-2004
tes.pdf
Comment: The front and the back covers are excluded, as are the 8 appended papers. Compared to the published thesis there is a correction in footnote 2 on page 58. The word "minus" has been added. Furthermore a pure typesetting error on page 35 is corrected.