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  2. Lorentz transformation - Wikipedia

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    It may include a rotation of space; a rotation-free Lorentz transformation is called a Lorentz boost. In Minkowski space—the mathematical model of spacetime in special relativity—the Lorentz transformations preserve the spacetime interval between any two events. They describe only the transformations in which the spacetime event at the ...

  3. Boost converter - Wikipedia

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    A boost converter or step-up converter is a DC-to-DC converter that increases voltage, while decreasing current, from its input to its output . It is a class of switched-mode power supply (SMPS) containing at least two semiconductors, a diode and a transistor , and at least one energy storage element: a capacitor , inductor , or the two in ...

  4. Derivations of the Lorentz transformations - Wikipedia

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    therefore the explicit form of the boost matrix depends only the generator and its square. Splitting the power series into an odd power series and an even power series, using the odd and even powers of the generator, and the Taylor series of sinh ϕ and cosh ϕ about ϕ = 0 obtains a more compact but detailed form of the boost matrix

  5. Lorentz group - Wikipedia

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    (The other similar generator, K y + J x as well as it and J z comprise altogether the little group of the light-like vector, isomorphic to E(2).) The action of a Lorentz boost in the x-direction on the light-cone and 'celestial circle' in 1+2 spacetime.

  6. Classical electromagnetism and special relativity - Wikipedia

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    Lorentz boost of an electric charge. Top: The charge is at rest in frame F , so this observer sees a static electric field. An observer in another frame F ′ moves with velocity v relative to F , and sees the charge move with velocity − v with an altered electric field E due to length contraction and a magnetic field B due to the motion of ...

  7. Covariant formulation of classical electromagnetism - Wikipedia

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    The covariant formulation of classical electromagnetism refers to ways of writing the laws of classical electromagnetism (in particular, Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force) in a form that is manifestly invariant under Lorentz transformations, in the formalism of special relativity using rectilinear inertial coordinate systems.

  8. Four-vector - Wikipedia

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    Given two inertial or rotated frames of reference, a four-vector is defined as a quantity which transforms according to the Lorentz transformation matrix Λ: ′ =. In index notation, the contravariant and covariant components transform according to, respectively: ′ =, ′ = in which the matrix Λ has components Λ μ ν in row μ and column ν, and the matrix (Λ −1) T has components Λ ...

  9. Lorentz oscillator model - Wikipedia

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    The model is named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. It is a classical , phenomenological model for materials with characteristic resonance frequencies (or other characteristic energy scales) for optical absorption, e.g. ionic and molecular vibrations , interband transitions (semiconductors), phonons , and collective excitations.