FITZGERALD-LORENTZ CONTRACTION

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	A hypothesis that all measuring rods contract in the direction of motion in the ratio where u is the speed of motion and c is the speed of light. (references)
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Specialty Definition: FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction

In relativity, the shortening of an object along the direction of its motion relative to an observer.Dimensions in other directions are not affected. The concept was proposed by the Irish physicist George FitzGerald in 1889, and it was later independently developed by Hendrik Lorentz of The Netherlands.

Crosswords: FITZGERALD-LORENTZ CONTRACTION

Specialty definitions using "FITZGERALD-LORENTZ CONTRACTION": relativistic velocity. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: FITZGERALD-LORENTZ CONTRACTION

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 54 5A 47 45 52 41 4C 44 2D 4C 4F 52 45 4E 54 5A 43 4F 4E 54 52 41 43 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01010100 01011010 01000111 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 01000100 00101101 01001100 01001111 01010010 01000101 01001110 01010100 01011010 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0054 005A 0047 0045 0052 0041 004C 0044 002D 004C 004F 0052 0045 004E 0054 005A 0043 004F 004E 0054 0052 0041 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

FITZGERALD-LORENTZ CONTRACTION

Specialty Definition: FITZGERALD-LORENTZ CONTRACTION

Aerospace