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Hi, I was wondering what Lorenz Factors are. Can someone give me a simple definition?
"Lorentz" not "Lorenz"..... Not all spelling mistakes matter but this one does because Ludwig Lorenz and Hendrik Lorentz are different people.Hi, I was wondering what Lorenz Factors are. Can someone give me a simple definition?
I spent the summer after high school trying to figure that out from scratch. I finally got it, but doing the whole thing with just a generic linear transformation (x = ax' + bt', t = ft' + gx') a year later was much more satisfying.Also, Google for "light clock". You can derive the Lorentz transforms (including the Lorentz factor, ##\gamma##) with no maths beyond Pythagoras' Theorem.
There was also Edward Lorenz, a mathematician and meteorologist, famous for his pioneering contributions to chaos theory."Lorentz" not "Lorenz"..... Not all spelling mistakes matter but this one does because Ludwig Lorenz and Hendrik Lorentz are different people.