- 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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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (/ˈlɒrənts/ LORR-ənts; Dutch: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈɑntoːn ˈloːrɛnts]; 18 July 1853 – 4
February 1928) was a
Dutch theoretical physicist who...
- 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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Steven Lorentz (born
April 13, 1996) is a
Canadian professional ice
hockey centre for the
Toronto Maple Leafs of the
National Hockey League (NHL). The...
- 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...
- 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...
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within the universe). However,
space and time took on new
meanings with the
Lorentz transformation and
special theory of relativity. In 1908,
Hermann Minkowski...
- What is now
often called Lorentz ether theory (LET) has its
roots in
Hendrik Lorentz's "theory of electrons",
which marked the end of the development...
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especially among physicists, as the
Lorentz distribution (after
Hendrik Lorentz), Cauchy–
Lorentz distribution,
Lorentz(ian) function, or Breit–Wigner distribution...
