The transformations are named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz.

The most common form of the transformation, parametrized by the real constant representing a velocity confined to the -direction, is expressed as

where and are the coordinates of an event in two frames with the spatial origins coinciding at , where the primed frame is seen from the unprimed frame as moving with speed along the -axis, where is the speed of light,

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