- Look up
Lorentz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lorentz is a name
derived from the
Roman surname, Laurentius,
which means "from Laurentum". It is...
-
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (/ˈlɔːrənts/ LAWR-uhnts; Dutch: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈɑntoːn ˈloːrɛnts]; 18 July 1853 – 4
February 1928) was a
Dutch theoretical physicist...
- In physics, the
Lorentz transformations are a six-parameter
family of
linear transformations from a
coordinate frame in
spacetime to
another frame that...
- In electromagnetism, the
Lorentz force is the
force exerted on a
charged particle by
electric and
magnetic fields. It
determines how
charged particles...
- In
physics and mathematics, the
Lorentz group is the
group of all
Lorentz transformations of
Minkowski spacetime, the
classical and
quantum setting for...
- In
relativistic physics,
Lorentz symmetry or
Lorentz invariance,
named after the
Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz, is an
equivalence of
observation or...
- own rest frame. It is also
known as
Lorentz contraction or
Lorentz–FitzGerald
contraction (after
Hendrik Lorentz and
George Francis FitzGerald) and is...
-
within the universe). However,
space and time took on new
meanings with the
Lorentz transformation and
special theory of relativity. In 1908,
Hermann Minkowski...
-
theory of physics, a
Lorentz scalar is a
scalar expression whose value is
invariant under any
Lorentz transformation. A
Lorentz scalar may be generated...
- The
Lorentz factor or
Lorentz term (also
known as the
gamma factor) is a
dimensionless quantity expressing how much the
measurements of time, length,...
