The Lorentz factor or Lorentz term (also known as the gamma factor) is a quantity that expresses how much the measurements of time, length, and other physical...

{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...

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...

In physics and mathematics, the Lorentz group is the group of all Lorentz transformations of Minkowski spacetime, the classical and quantum setting for...

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...

own rest frame. It is also known as Lorentz contraction or Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction (after Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald) and is...

of Lorentz transformations comprises the development of linear transformations forming the Lorentz group or Poincaré group preserving the Lorentz interval...

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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than zero, the Lorentz factor will be greater than one, although the shape of the curve is such that for low speeds, the Lorentz factor is extremely close...