• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    luminiferous aether. These led to the development of the Lorentz transformations, by Hendrik Lorentz, which adjust distances and times for moving objects...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Steven Lorentz (born April 13, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who is currently on a professional tryout (PTO) with the Toronto Maple...
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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...
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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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  • theory of physics, a Lorentz scalar is a scalar expression whose value is invariant under any Lorentz transformation. A Lorentz scalar may be generated...
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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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  • known as the Lorentz distribution, Lorentzian function, or Cauchy–Lorentz distribution Lorentz transformation Lorentzian manifold Lorentz (disambiguation)...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Four-vector (redirect from Lorentz vector)
    four-vector (or 4-vector, sometimes Lorentz vector) is an object with four components, which transform in a specific way under Lorentz transformations. Specifically...
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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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    Wistrich, John Woods, Nasr Abu Zayd, and Gerard de Zeeuw. The Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (DLF) is granted once a year to a leading scholar working on...
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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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    Drude model (redirect from Lorentz model)
    The model was extended in 1905 by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (and hence is also known as the Drude–Lorentz model) to give the relation between the thermal...
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    Lorentz National Park is an Indonesian national park located in the provinces of Central Papua, Highland Papua and South Papua, in the southwest of western...
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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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    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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