Lorentz (disambiguation)
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Lorentz is a surname and a given name.
Lorentz may also refer to:
Things named for Hendrik Lorentz
- Lorentz factor, Doppler effect
- Lorentz force, the force exerted on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field
- Lorentz transformation, the formula that provides the mathematical backbone for Einstein's theory of special relativity, though Einstein re-derived the transform in a different and much more elegant way
- The Lorentz group, the group containing all Lorentz transformations
- Lorentz-Cauchy distribution, a distribution used in fitting peaks in a spectrum
- Lorentz surface, a two-dimensional oriented smooth manifold with a conformal equivalence class of Lorentzian metrics. It is the analogue of a Riemann surface in indefinite signature
- Lorentz curve (disambiguation), various meanings
- Lorentz scalar, a scalar which is invariant under a Lorentz transformation
- Lorentz Institute, Instituut-Lorentz in Dutch, was established in 1921 and is the oldest institute for theoretical physics in The Netherlands
Places
- Lorentz (crater), crater on the Moon
- Lorentz National Park, a national park in Indonesian New Guinea, named for Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
- Lorentz River, located in Western New Guinea, Indonesia
- Lorentz, West Virginia
Other uses
- Lorentz Medal, a prize awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Lorentz space, in mathematics, a function space named after the American mathematician George G. Lorentz.
- Lorentz catfish, a species of fish in the Ariidae family, and the only member of the genus Tetranesodon. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia
See also
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