Problem 1382. Schwarzschild radius

Created by Claudio Gelmi

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Compute the Schwarzschild radius for objects of mass m (kg). Use c = 299,792.458 km/s and G = 6.6738*10^-11 N*(m/kg)^2. Your function should give the result in m.

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James on 25 Mar 2013

Please check the answers for the test suite, as I think there may be a unit discrepancy here with c in km/sec and G in N*(m/kg)^2.

Claudio Gelmi on 2 Apr 2013

Thanks James and Vitor for noticing the mistake! All fixed and rescored...

Christian Schröder on 3 Nov 2022

The problem doesn't mention it, but you should round the result to four decimal digits.

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