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Noun Concept
Categories: Length, Hendrik Lorentz, Special relativity
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length contraction  Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction  FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction  Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction hypothesis  Fitz-Gerald contraction
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Length contraction is the phenomenon that a moving object's length is measured to be shorter than its proper length, which is the length as measured in the object's own rest frame. Wikipedia
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Length contraction is the phenomenon that a moving object's length is measured to be shorter than its proper length, which is the length as measured in the object's own rest frame. Wikipedia
The contraction of length in the direction of propagation in Minkowski space Wikidata
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physical phenomenon
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length contraction
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length contraction
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Fitz-Gerald contraction, FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction, FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction, Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction, FitzGerald contraction, FitzGerald Lorentz Contraction, FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction, Lorentz-FirtGerald contraction, Lorentz-FitzGeral contraction, Lorentz-Fitzgerald, Lorentz-FitzGerald Contraction, Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction, Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction, Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis, Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction hypothesis, Lorentz contraction, Lorentz contraction hypothesis, Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction hypothesis, Lorenz contraction, Relativistic foreshortening, Relativistic length contraction, space contraction
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Lorentz contraction, Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction

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