John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM PC FRS (/ˈreɪli/; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English mathematician and physicist who made extensive...

has the Rayleigh–Jeans law as its low-frequency limit. In 1900, the British physicist Lord Rayleigh derived the λ−4 dependence of the Rayleigh–Jeans law...

phenomenon is named after the 19th-century British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt). Rayleigh scattering results from the electric polarizability...

two degrees of freedom. The distribution is named after Lord Rayleigh (/ˈreɪli/). A Rayleigh distribution is often observed when the overall magnitude...

In fluid mechanics, the Rayleigh number (Ra, after Lord Rayleigh) for a fluid is a dimensionless number associated with buoyancy-driven flow, also known...

The Rayleigh–Taylor instability, or RT instability (after Lord Rayleigh and G. I. Taylor), is an instability of an interface between two fluids of different...

series. It is also known as Rayleigh's energy theorem, or Rayleigh's identity, after John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh. Although the term "Parseval's...

context of solving physical boundary value problems and named after Lord Rayleigh and Walther Ritz. In this method, an infinite-dimensional linear operator...

In fluid dynamics, Rayleigh flow (after English physicist Lord Rayleigh) refers to frictionless, non-adiabatic fluid flow through a constant-area duct...

Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a British physicist and mathematician who is the source of...

Reynolds number and the Mach number. The equation is attributed to Lord Rayleigh, who originally used L2 in place of A (with L being some linear dimension)...

In fluid thermodynamics, Rayleigh–Bénard convection is a type of natural convection, occurring in a planar horizontal layer of fluid heated from below...

the aperture and the wavelength of the light) by the Rayleigh criterion defined by Lord Rayleigh: two point sources are regarded as just resolved when...

deteriorated a short time into his tenure, and he died in 1879, aged 48. Lord Rayleigh replaced Maxwell immediately upon his death, being universally agreed...

In mathematics, the Rayleigh quotient (/ˈreɪ.li/) for a given complex Hermitian matrix M {\displaystyle M} and nonzero vector x {\displaystyle x} is defined...

of meteoric water due to condensation. The original Rayleigh equation was derived by Lord Rayleigh for the case of fractional distillation of mixed liquids...

between these component motions. The existence of Rayleigh waves was predicted in 1885 by Lord Rayleigh, after whom they were named. In isotropic solids...

In physics, the Rayleigh dissipation function, named after Lord Rayleigh, is a function used to handle the effects of velocity-proportional frictional...

Henry Cavendish in 1785. Argon was first isolated from air in 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay at University College London by removing oxygen...

electromagnetic waves in a metal cylinder was performed by Lord Rayleigh in 1897.: 8  For sound waves, Lord Rayleigh published a full mathematical analysis of propagation...

region, domain walls are moving. They are hindered by material defects. Lord Rayleigh investigated this first and quantified the magnetization M {\displaystyle...

Rayleigh–Gans approximation, also known as Rayleigh–Gans–Debye approximation and Rayleigh–Gans–Born approximation, is an approximate solution to light...

The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe, was the prediction of late 19th century to early 20th century classical physics...

Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh FRS (28 August 1875 – 13 December 1947) was a British peer and physicist. He discovered "active nitrogen" and was...

sudden movement of an infinitely long plate from rest, named after Lord Rayleigh and Sir George Stokes. This is considered as one of the simplest unsteady...

is characterized to a first approximation by the Rayleigh–Plesset equation (named after Lord Rayleigh and Milton Plesset): R R ¨ + 3 2 R ˙ 2 = 1 ρ ( P...

Rayleigh fading is a statistical model for the effect of a propagation environment on a radio signal, such as that used by wireless devices. Rayleigh...

health problems. Instead, he conducted research with Nobel Laureate, Lord Rayleigh at the University of Cambridge. Bose returned to India to join the Presidency...

In spectral geometry, the Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality, named after its conjecturer, Lord Rayleigh, and two individuals who independently proved the...

with respect to z . {\displaystyle z.} The equation is named after Lord Rayleigh, who introduced it in 1880. The Orr–Sommerfeld equation – introduced...