Vladimir Varićak
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Vladimir Varićak was a Croatian Serb mathematician and theoretical physicist.
Vladimir Varićak
Length 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. It is also known as
Vladimir Varićak
…Lobachevski Space), now available in English. In the period 1909 to 1913 Varićak had correspondence with Albert Einstein concerning rotation and length contraction where Varićak's interpretations differed from those of Einstein. Concerning length contraction Varićak said that in Einstein's interpretation the…
Formula on a wall in Leiden, Netherlands. Lorentz was chair of theoretical physics at the University of Leiden (1877–1910).