The Lorentz factor or Lorentz term (also known as the gamma factor) is a quantity expressing how much the measurements of time, length, and other physical...
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{v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}\right)^{-1}} is the Lorentz factor. When speed v is much smaller than c, the Lorentz factor is negligibly different from 1, but as...
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz ForMemRS (/ˈlɒrənts/; 18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter...
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In physics and mathematics, the Lorentz group is the group of all Lorentz transformations of Minkowski spacetime, the classical and quantum setting for...
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Length contraction (redirect from Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction hypothesis)
own rest frame. It is also known as Lorentz contraction or Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction (after Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald) and is...
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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...
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Lorentz factor Lorentz force Lorentz force velocimetry Lorentz group Lorentz manifold Lorentz metric Lorentz pendulum Lorentz oscillator model Lorentz scalar...
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have any factors of 4π when this system is used. Consequently, electromagnetic quantities in the Heaviside–Lorentz system differ by factors of √4π in...
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What is now often called Lorentz ether theory (LET) has its roots in Hendrik Lorentz's "theory of electrons", which marked the end of the development...
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are warped by the γ factor) and perpendicular; see the article Lorentz transformation for details. A quantity invariant under Lorentz transformations is...
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