Physics
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner, or his work:
- 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 space
- Lorentz Institute, Instituut-Lorentz in Dutch, was established in 1921 and is the oldest institute for theoretical physics in The Netherlands
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Famous quotes containing the word physics:
“He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. But we would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The labor we delight in physics pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)