length contraction

collocation in English

meaningsoflengthandcontraction

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length
noun
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/leŋθ/us
/leŋθ/
the measurement of something from end to end or along its ...
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contraction
noun[U]
uk
/kənˈtræk.ʃən/us
/kənˈtræk.ʃən/
the fact of something becoming smaller ...
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(Definition oflengthandcontractionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This requires thatlengthcontractionand time dilation have the exact relativistic values.
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Those stresses were interpreted by him as an external, non-electromagnetic pressure, which stabilize the electrons and also served as an explanation forlengthcontraction.
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Ignatowski had to resort tolengthcontractionof moving electrostatic fields in order to identify this limiting velocity with the velocity of light in vacuum.
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Because of its high velocity, the ladder undergoes the relativistic effect oflengthcontraction, and becomes significantly shorter.
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Consequently, alsolengthcontractioncan not be measured by co-moving observers.
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Lengthcontractionis only in the direction parallel to the direction in which the observed body is travelling.
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If the direction of motion is perpendicular to the "plates",lengthcontractionof the plates does not occur, but the distance between them is reduced.
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Direct confirmation oflengthcontractionis hard to achieve in practice since the dimensions of the observed particles are vanishingly small.
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In particular, the effects of time dilation andlengthcontractionare used in both of these paradoxes to create situations which seemingly contradict each other.
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Relativistic effects such aslengthcontractionand time dilation and some relations to covariant and contravariant vectors were demonstrated by them.
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Examples were the constancy of the speed of light, time dilation,lengthcontraction.
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The same result is obtained when the relativistic effect oflengthcontractionis applied to the radius of the 6s orbital.
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For the parallel component, the time dilation decreases the speed, thelengthcontractionincreases it, and the two effects cancel out.
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It allows a quantitative understanding of the corresponding phenomena like time dilation andlengthcontractionwithout mathematical equations.
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But this is not strictly correct, sincelengthcontractionand time dilation having their exact relativistic values are sufficient but not necessary for the explanation of both experiments.
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This is the formula forlengthcontraction.
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Special relativity implies a wide range of consequences, which have been experimentally verified, includinglengthcontraction, time dilation, relativistic mass, massenergy equivalence, a universal speed limit, and relativity of simultaneity.
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The above formulas for clock delays and length contractions are special cases of the general transformation.
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