Lorentz factor
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From its appearance in Lorentzian electrodynamics, named after Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz.
Noun[edit]
- (physics) a factor arising frequently 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[edit]
Lorentz factor
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