• 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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    In physics, the Lorentz transformations are a six-parameter family of linear transformations from a coordinate frame in spacetime to another frame that...
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    In physics, specifically in electromagnetism, the Lorentz force (or electromagnetic force) is the combination of electric and magnetic force on a point...
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    Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (/ˈlɒrənts/; 18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman...
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    Spacetime (redirect from Lorentz interval)
    within the universe). However, space and time took on new meanings with the Lorentz transformation and special theory of relativity. In 1908, Hermann Minkowski...
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  • 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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    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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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    hypothesized luminiferous aether. These led to the development of the Lorentz transformations, which adjust distances and times for moving objects. Special...
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  • H. A. Lorentz may refer to: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in 1902 Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz (1871–1944)...
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    especially among physicists, as the Lorentz distribution (after Hendrik Lorentz), Cauchy–Lorentz distribution, Lorentz(ian) function, or Breit–Wigner distribution...
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    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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  • known as the Lorentz distribution, Lorentzian function, or Cauchy–Lorentz distribution Lorentz transformation Lorentzian manifold Lorentz (disambiguation)...
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    Steven Lorentz (born April 13, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Carolina...
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  • Lorentz scalar is an expression, formed from items of the theory, which evaluates to a scalar, invariant under any Lorentz transformation. A Lorentz scalar...
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    together make the Lorentz group (see also Lorentz invariance); the semi-direct product of the translations group and the Lorentz group then produce the...
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  • Lorentz Johannes Alexander Berger, (born 28 July 1991), who uses his given name Lorentz as a stage name, is a rap artist from Stockholm, Sweden, rapping...
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  • and/or molecules, or a homogeneous mixture thereof. It is equivalent to the Lorentz–Lorenz equation, which relates the refractive index (rather than the dielectric...
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    Pare Lorentz (December 11, 1905 – March 4, 1992) was an American filmmaker known for his film work about the New Deal. Born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in...
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    physics under different transformations, and was the first to present the Lorentz transformations in their modern symmetrical form. Poincaré discovered the...
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  • Lorentz curve may refer to the Cauchy–Lorentz distribution, a probability distribution the Lorenz curve, a graphical representation of the inequality...
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  • results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. Max Planck, Hermann Minkowski and others did...
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    result was found in the FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction hypothesis, now simply called length contraction or Lorentz contraction, first proposed by George...
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  • James Peter Lorentz, Jr. (born May 1, 1947) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for...
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    Lorentz Creutz (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlǒːrɛns ˈkrœjts]; 1615 – 1 June 1676) was a Swedish friherre (roughly equivalent to a baron), government administrator...
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  • modeled using Lorentz invariance violating terms, for example in the Standard-Model Extension. In this framework, neutrinos experience Lorentz-violating oscillations...
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    Lorentz National Park is a national park located in Central Papua, Indonesia, in the southwest of western New Guinea. With an area of 25,056 km2 (9,674 mi2)...
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    The Lorentz oscillator model describes the optical response of bound charges. The model is named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. It...
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  • frequently confused with Hendrik Lorentz, who has given his name to many concepts in this field. The condition is Lorentz invariant. The Lorenz gauge condition...
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