Hendrik Antoon Lorentz ForMemRS (/ˈlɒrənts/ LORR-ənts, Dutch: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈloːrɛnts]; 18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the...

velocity. The transformations are named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz. The most common form of the transformation, parametrized by the real...

is implicit in a paper by James Clerk Maxwell, published in 1865. Hendrik Lorentz arrived at a complete derivation in 1895, identifying the contribution...

In relativistic physics, Lorentz symmetry or Lorentz invariance, named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz, is an equivalence of observation or...

the Lorentz transformations. The name originates from its earlier appearance in Lorentzian electrodynamics – named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz...

phenomena. The Lorentz group is named for the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz. For example, the following laws, equations, and theories respect Lorentz symmetry:...

own rest frame. It is also known as Lorentz contraction or Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction (after Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald) and is...

was the daughter and doctoral student of Hendrik Lorentz. She went by the name Berta, or Ber. Berta Lorentz was born in Leiden, Netherlands, the eldest...

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

theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. It culminated in the theory of special...

hypothesis of complete aether dragging. However, Alfred Potier (and later Hendrik Lorentz) pointed out to Michelson that he had made an error of calculation...

is frequently confused with Hendrik Lorentz, who has given his name to many concepts in this field. The condition is Lorentz invariant. The Lorenz gauge...

luminiferous aether. These led to the development of the Lorentz transformations, by Hendrik Lorentz, which adjust distances and times for moving objects...

or the self-force. It is named after the physicists Max Abraham and Hendrik Lorentz. The formula, although predating the theory of special relativity,...

theory of physics, a Lorentz scalar is a scalar expression whose value is invariant under any Lorentz transformation. A Lorentz scalar may be generated...

observation of stellar aberration. George Francis FitzGerald in 1889, and Hendrik Lorentz in 1892, independently proposed that material bodies traveling through...

relativistic velocity transformations and recorded them in a letter to Hendrik Lorentz in 1905. Thus he obtained perfect invariance of all of Maxwell's equations...

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...

apparently confirmed by the Michelson–Morley experiment (1881, 1887). Hendrik Lorentz resolved this contradictory situation in his own aether theory, which...

= 1 − 1 n 2   . {\displaystyle f=1-{\frac {1}{n^{2}}}\ .} In 1895, Hendrik Lorentz predicted the existence of an extra term due to dispersion:: 15–20 ...

such theorem is Lorentz reciprocity (and its various special cases such as Rayleigh-Carson reciprocity), named after work by Hendrik Lorentz in 1896 following...

1869, and the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz, who discovered it independently in 1878. The most general form of the Lorentz–Lorenz equation is (in Gaussian-CGS...

of Lorentz transformations comprises the development of linear transformations forming the Lorentz group or Poincaré group preserving the Lorentz interval...

The Lorentz oscillator model describes the optical response of bound charges. The model is named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. It...

direction) to within 6 nanometres per second. Because of this experiment Hendrik Lorentz proposed that the motion of the apparatus through the aether may cause...

called Lorentzian metrics. They are named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz. After Riemannian manifolds, Lorentzian manifolds form the most important...

in 1925 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the doctorate of Hendrik Lorentz. The medal is given for important contributions to theoretical physics...

Hendrik Lorentz used a mathematical method called "local time" t' = t – v x/c2 for explaining the negative aether drift experiments. However, Lorentz...

should have led to positive results according to Fresnel. However, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1895) modified Fresnel's theory and showed that those experiments...

The Lorentz-Lorenz law, the law regarding the refractive index of a substance discovered independently by Hendrik Lorentz and Ludvig Lorenz Lorentz force...