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 the following terms:
Science and Mathematics Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace Rayleigh bandwidth Rayleigh beamwidth Rayleigh–Carson reciprocity Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality Rayleigh–Jeans law Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe Rayleigh–Ritz method Rayleigh–Schrödinger perturbation theory Rayleigh's method of dimensional analysis Rayleigh criterion Rayleigh's criterion (thermoacoustics) Rayleigh differential equation Rayleigh dissipation function Rayleigh distance Rayleigh distribution Rayleigh frequency Rayleigh mixture distribution Rayleigh fading Rayleigh's film Rayleigh flight Rayleigh's formulas Rayleigh fractionation Rayleigh's identity Rayleigh interferometer Rayleigh law Rayleigh–Lorentz pendulum Rayleigh law on low-field magnetization Rayleigh length Rayleigh limit Rayleigh–Gans approximation Rayleigh plot Rayleigh quotient Rayleigh quotient iteration Rayleigh's quotient in vibrations analysis Rayleigh test Rayleigh theorem Rayleigh theorem for eigenvalues Rayleigh scattering Filtered Rayleigh scattering Forced Rayleigh scattering Hyper–Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh roughness criterion Rayleigh sky model Rayleigh–Sommerfeld diffraction theory Rayleigh wave equation Rayleigh waves
Fluid mechanics Rayleigh's criterion Janzen–Rayleigh expansion Plateau–Rayleigh instability Rayleigh–Bénard convection Rayleigh–Plesset equation Rayleigh–Taylor instability Rayleigh's equation (fluid dynamics) Rayleigh–Kuo criterion Rayleigh flow Rayleigh number Rayleigh problem Rayleigh Still
Astronomical objects 22740 Rayleigh Rayleigh 75.6°S 240.9°W / -75.6; -240.9 (Rayleigh), a Martian crater Rayleigh (lunar crater)
Others Rayleigh Medal, awarded by the Institute of Acoustics Rayleigh Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics
See also Rayleigh (disambiguation)
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