- Look up
Lorentz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lorentz is a name
derived from the
Roman surname, Laurentius,
which means "from Laurentum". It is...
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (/ˈlɒrənts/ LORR-ənts; Dutch: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈloːrɛnts]; 18 July 1853 – 4
February 1928) was a
Dutch physicist who
shared the 1902 Nobel...
- In physics, the
Lorentz transformations are a six-parameter
family of
linear transformations from a
coordinate frame in
spacetime to
another frame that...
- electromagnetism, the
Lorentz force law is the
combination of
electric and
magnetic force on a
point charge due to
electromagnetic fields. The
Lorentz force, on the...
- Look up
Lorentz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lorentz is a
surname and a
given name.
Lorentz may also
refer to:
Lorentz factor,
Doppler effect The...
- In
physics and mathematics, the
Lorentz group is the
group of all
Lorentz transformations of
Minkowski spacetime, the
classical and
quantum setting for...
- In
relativistic physics,
Lorentz symmetry or
Lorentz invariance,
named after the
Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz, is an
equivalence of
observation or...
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within the universe). However,
space and time took on new
meanings with the
Lorentz transformation and
special theory of relativity. In 1908,
Hermann Minkowski...
- The
Lorentz factor or
Lorentz term (also
known as the
gamma factor) is a
dimensionless quantity expressing how much the
measurements of time, length,...
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together make the
Lorentz group (see also
Lorentz invariance); the semi-direct
product of the
spacetime translations group and the
Lorentz group then produce...
