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The authors explored the possibility of separating gravitation from inertia in the first-order gradients of the gravitational potential in the light of general relativity. It is proposed to choose an inertial platform as a tetrad and let the accelerometers be fixed with the inertial platform. The force experienced by the inertial platform can be directly measured by the accelerometers. Since the Riemannian tensor components R 0i0j could be locally measured by gradiometers, one can determine the first-order gradients of the gravitational potential.
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Shen, W., Moritz, H. (1997). The Separation of Gravitation and Inertia in the First-Order Gradient. In: Segawa, J., Fujimoto, H., Okubo, S. (eds) Gravity, Geoid and Marine Geodesy. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03482-8_28
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