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Journal of Modern Physics, 2011, 2, 274-283 doi:10.4236/jmp.2011.24036 Published Online April 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jmp) Schwarzschild Geodesics in Terms of Elliptic Functions and the Related Red Shift Günter Scharf Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Zürich, Switzerland E-mail : scharf@physik.unizh.ch Received February 5, 2010; revised March 10, 2011; accepted March 15, 2011 Abstract Using Weierstrassian elliptic functions the exact geodesics in the Schwarzschild metric are expressed in a simple and most transparent form. The results are useful for analytical and numerical applications. For ex- ample we calculate the perihelion precession and the light deflection in the post-Einsteinian approximation. The bounded orbits are computed in the post-Newtonian order. As a topical application we calculate the gravitational red shift for a star moving in the Schwarzschild field. Keywords: Schwarzschild Geodesics, Red Shift 1. Introduction have also been used by Hagihara [11]1. But he has cho- sen the variables and constants of integration in a manner Schwarzschild geodesics are elliptic functions, therefore, which leads to less explicit results. So it is difficult to they should be written as such. For this purpose the derive the post-Newtonian corrections to the geodesics Weierstrassian elliptic functions are most useful because given here from his formulas. As a topical application we they lead to simple expressions. The reason for this is fi