• 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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    especially among physicists, as the Lorentz distribution (after Hendrik Lorentz), Cauchy–Lorentz distribution, Lorentz(ian) function, or Breit–Wigner distribution...
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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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