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Lorentz factor
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English
Etymology
From its appearance in Lorentzian electrodynamics, en Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz Hendrik Lorentz 1.
Noun
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en relativity a factor arising in special relativity, to calculate the degree of time dilation, length contraction and relativistic mass of an object moving relative to an observer, defined as , where v and c are relative velocity and the speed of light, respectively
Translations
Lorentz factor
German: de Lorentzfaktor m
Indonesian: id faktor Lorentz
Malay: ms faktor Lorentz
Polish: pl czynnik Lorentza m
Swedish: sv Lorentzfaktor c
See also
en speed parameter
en eponyms
en Physical quantities