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

Heaviside. The Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz hit on a very similar idea in 1892 and developed it more fully into Lorentz transformations, in connection with...

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

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

In the physics of electromagnetism, the Abraham–Lorentz force (also known as the Lorentz–Abraham force) is the reaction force on an accelerating charged...

results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. Max Planck, Hermann Minkowski and others did...

Heaviside–Lorentz units (or Lorentz–Heaviside units) constitute a system of units and quantities that extends the CGS with a particular set of equations...

dynamics of biological computation" took place in April 2024. Hendrik Lorentz was chairman of the first Solvay Conference on Physics, held in Brussels...

Pomerania. Slovincian is classified either as a language (first by Friedrich Lorentz), or as a Kashubian dialect or variant. Slovincian and Kashubian are both...

arbitrary-looking coefficients and physical assumptions. Lorentz and FitzGerald offered within the framework of Lorentz ether theory a more elegant solution to how...

Lorentz symmetry. Violations of this fundamental symmetry can be studied within this general framework. CPT violation implies the breaking of Lorentz...

discussion. The Dirac equation is invariant under Lorentz transformations, that is, under the action of the Lorentz group SO ( 1 , 3 ) {\displaystyle {\text{SO}}(1...

with the Michelson–Morley experiment. Therefore, George Francis FitzGerald (1889) and Lorentz (1892) introduced length contraction, that is, all bodies...

derived by the Maxwell–Faraday equation (describing transformer emf) and the Lorentz force (describing motional emf). The integral form of the Maxwell–Faraday...

Lorentz Wilhelm Brinch (9 May 1910 – 20 May 1953) was a Norwegian barrister, military officer, banker and politician for the Conservative Party. He was...

first IDATE website 1997: Marc Tessier becomes Chairman of IDATE 1999: Francis Lorentz becomes Chairman of IDATE 2000: First edition of the "DigiWorld Yearbook"...

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

vector that, when used in the Lorentz force law, correctly predicts the force on a charged particle at that point:: 204  Lorentz force law (vector form, SI...

acceleration of electrons. Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald offered, within the framework of Lorentz ether theory, an explanation of how...

relativity (see History of Lorentz transformations and Lorentz ether theory). A more modern example of deriving the Lorentz transformation from electrodynamics...

The way out of this dilemma was the proposal by George Francis FitzGerald (1889) and Lorentz (1892) that matter is contracted in the line of motion with...

Saint-Paul, which formed part of the hôtel, survives to this day. According to Lorentz and Sandron 2006, pp. 91, 99, this miniature depicts the Hôtel Saint-Pol...

unit quasi-sphere of the biquaternions provides a representation of the Lorentz group, which is the foundation of special relativity. The algebra of biquaternions...

magnetic field is present, these charges experience a force, called the Lorentz force. When such a magnetic field is absent, the charges follow approximately...

Sciences. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1966 and the Lorentz Medal in 1974. For his contributions to the understanding of the behavior...

the magnetic field B {\displaystyle \mathbf {B} } is given by the usual Lorentz formula E = − v × B {\displaystyle \mathbf {E} =-\mathbf {v} \times \mathbf...

an extra term must be added to account for the current induced by the Lorentz force on the charge carriers. J = σ ( E + v × B ) {\displaystyle \mathbf...

(since the Galilean transformation is the low-speed approximation to the Lorentz transformation). Similarly, the Newtonian gravitation law is a low-mass...