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	Rayleigh scattering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rayleigh scattering (named after Lord Rayleigh) is the scattering of light by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light.
		Rayleigh scattering of sunlight from particles in the atmosphere is an early approximation of the reason for why the light from the sky is blue.
		The amount of Rayleigh scattering that occurs to a beam of light is dependent upon the size of the particles and the wavelength of the light; in particular, the scattering coefficient, and hence the intensity of the scattered light, varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength, a relation known as the Rayleigh law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rayleigh_scattering (1675 words)

	Blue Sky and Rayleigh Scattering
		Rayleigh scattering refers to the scattering of light off of the molecules of the air, and can be extended to scattering from particles up to about a tenth of the wavelength of the light.
		Rayleigh scattering can be considered to be elastic scattering since the photon energies of the scattered photons is not changed.
		This is consistent with Rayleigh scattering which emphasizes the shorter wavelengths.
	hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/atmos/blusky.html (703 words)

	Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt
		Lord Rayleigh was the cause of a radical new way of instruction of physics experiments at Cambridge, increasing his students from six to seventy.
		Lord Rayleigh's first researches were mainly mathematical, concerning optics and vibrating systems, but his later work ranged over almost the whole field of physics, covering sound, wave theory, colour vision, electrodynamics, electromagnetism, light scattering, flow of liquids, hydrodynamics, density of gases, viscosity, capillarity, elasticity, and photography.
		Lord Rayleigh was an excellent instructor and, under his active supervision, a system of practical instruction in experimental physics was devised at Cambridge, developing from a class of five or six students to an advanced school of some seventy experimental physicists.
	www.ob-ultrasound.net /rayleigh.html (866 words)

	Rayleigh
		Rayleigh's theory of scattering, published in 1871, was the first correct explanation of why the sky is blue.
		Rayleigh of course was correct and succeeded, with considerable difficulty, in isolating the gas.
		Rayleigh was a modest and generous man. He donated the proceeds of his Nobel Prize to the University of Cambridge to build an extension to the Cavendish laboratories.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Rayleigh.html (2836 words)

	Rayleigh-Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		rayleigh taylor alexis taylor taylor guitars julia taylor taylor made janet taylor zachary taylor jonathan taylor taylor kennedy karin taylor kevin taylor publishing taylor
		Rayleigh Karting Claims the longest indoor circuit in Essex.
		The Lions Club of Rayleigh Aim to have fun while raising funds from various activities that the club attends or organizes within the local community or surrounding areas.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Rayleigh-Taylor.html (333 words)

	Rayleigh Scattering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rayleigh scattering (named after Lord Rayleigh) is the scattering of light by particles smaller than the wavelength of the light.
		Rayleigh scattering of sunlight from particles in the atmosphere is the reason why the light from the sky is blue.
		For particles not larger than the Rayleigh limit, there is complete symmetry in the probability of scattering with respect to a plane normal to the direction of the incident radiation, so that the forward scatter equals the backward scatter.
	www.wikiverse.org /rayleigh-scattering (379 words)

	Rayleigh scattering
		Rayleigh scattering is applicable when the radius (r) of the scattering sphere is much smaller than the wavelength (lambda) of the incident light.
		The variation of scattering as a function of wavelength is complicated by the fact that the refractive index of water varies slightly across the visible spectrum, varying from 1.34658 at 380 nm to 1.33141 at 700 nm.
		Although the blue colour of the sky is caused by Rayleigh scattering from aerosols or from molecules in the atmosphere, rather than from tiny droplets of water, the polarisation effects shown in Fig.
	www.philiplaven.com /p8b.html (513 words)

	Rayleigh (of Terling Place), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron
		Rayleigh's one excursion into academic life came in the period 1879-84, when he agreed to serve as the second Cavendish professor of experimental physics at Cambridge, in succession to James Clerk Maxwell.
		Rayleigh's greatest single contribution to science is generally considered to have been his discovery and isolation of argon, one of the rare gases of the atmosphere.
		Precision measurements of the density of gases conducted by him in the 1880s led to the interesting discovery that the density of nitrogen obtained from the atmosphere is greater by a small though definite amount than is the density of nitrogen obtained from one of its chemical compounds, such as ammonia.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/495_84.html (859 words)

	John William Strutt, 3. baron Rayleigh \| životopis
		V roce 1879 se stal Strutt Rayleigh profesorem experimentální fyziky a ředitelem Cavendishovy Laboratoře jako nástupce James Clerk Maxwella.
		John William Strutt, baron Rayleigh byl od roku 1873 člen Královské společnosti, kde působil v letech 1885 - 1896 jako tajemník a v letech 1905 - 1908 jako president.
		Rayleigh [R] - CGS jednotka světelné intenzity používaná v astronomii a fyzice.
	www.converter.cz /fyzici/rayleigh.htm (325 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rayleigh waves are a type of surface wave associated on the Earth with earthquakes and subterranean movement of magma.
		Craters on Mars and the Moon are named in his honor as well as a type of surface wave known as a Rayleigh wave.
		In fluid mechanics, the Rayleigh number for a fluid is a dimensionless number associated with the heat transfer within the fluid.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Strutt,-3rd-Baron-Rayleigh (1000 words)

	Rayleigh number (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When the Rayleigh number is below critical value for that fluid heat transfer primary in the form of conduction ; when it exceeds the critical value transfer is primarily in the form of convection.
		The Rayleigh number is defined as product of the Grashof number which describes the relationship between buoyancy and inertia within a fluid and the Prandtl number which describes the relationship between the viscosity of a fluid and its temperature.
		In geophysics the Rayleigh number is of fundamental it indicates the presence and strength of within a fluid body such as the which is a solid but which behaves a fluid over geological time scales.
	www.freeglossary.com /Rayleigh_number (416 words)

	J W Strutt - Lord Rayleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rayleigh title was originally given to his grandmother, Charlotte, on her husband's suggestion because Joseph Holden Strutt had declined personal honours throughout his life, and perhaps didn't wish to be raised to the peerage as he should have to resign as an MP.
		Rayleigh's papers go straight to the heart of the problems under investigation, using the minimum of mathematics for the solution.
		Rayleigh's son and biographer, Robert John, succeeded to the title in 1919 and continued in his father's footsteps being a Fellow of the Royal Society and professor of physics.
	www.measure.demon.co.uk /docs/Strutt.html (569 words)

	Rayleigh Instruments Company Profile
		Rayleigh Instruments Limited is a subsidiary of the Raytel Group Ltd. Rayleigh Instruments Ltd. is a prominent supplier to the UK market of a broad range of process control instrumentation.
		Rayleigh supplies goods which are produced by the Development, Design and Manufacturing Division of the Raytel Group Ltd. The Group has BS EN ISO 9001 quality approval, and is a BSI Registered Company, Reg.
		Rayleigh recognises that there are certain products that will require visual inspection or test before a decision can be made to purchase.
	www.rayleigh.co.uk /company_profile.cfm (456 words)

	Rayleigh-Bénard convection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The upper surface is unconstrained and is free to move and deform.
		Stimulated by these experiments, Rayleigh in 1916 derived the theoretical requirement for the development of convective motion in a layer of fluid with two free surfaces.
		is called the Rayleigh number, which represents the ratio of the destabilizing effect of buoyancy force to the stabilizing effect of viscous force.
	astron.berkeley.edu /~jrg/ay202/node132.html (494 words)

	Rayleigh, 3d Baron Biography / Biography of Rayleigh, 3d Baron Biography Biography
		John William Strutt was born in Maldon, Essex, on Nov. 12, 1842, the eldest son of the 2d Baron Rayleigh, a prosperous Essex farmer and landowner.
		In 1891 Rayleigh succeeded John Tyndall as professor of physics at the Royal Institution in London.
		By his marriage to Evelyn Balfour, Rayleigh was brought close to high government circles: her uncle, the Marquis of Salisbury, was prime minister from 1885 to 1901, and her brother, Arthur Balfour, was also prime minister.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-rayleigh-3d-baron (615 words)

	Rayleigh nitrogen contaminants: teaching notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Notes: Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919, born John William Strutt) was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in physics for his role in the discovery of argon.
		Rayleigh's investigations that led to the discovery of argon began in attempts to measure the density of nitrogen with an eye toward accurate determination of its molar mass.
		Part (a) asks the student to quantify the composition of "chemical nitrogen" based on two hypotheses Rayleigh considered and eliminated; part (b) asks the student to quantify the composition of "atmospheric nitrogen" based on the realization that it was really a mixture of nitrogen and argon.
	webserver.lemoyne.edu /~GIUNTA/classicalcs/rayleighnote.html (152 words)

	Ultraviolet Molecular Rayleigh Scattering Measures Velocity in High-Speed Flow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rayleigh scattered power is proportional to the gas density, the spectral width is related to the gas temperature, and the shift in the frequency of the spectral peak is proportional to one component of the fluid velocity.
		In this work at the NASA Lewis Research Center, molecular Rayleigh scattering of the 266-nm fourth harmonic of a pulsed, injectionseeded Nd:YAG (neodymium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser was used to measure velocity in a supersonic free air jet with a 9.3-mm exit diameter.
		The frequency of the Rayleigh scattered light was analyzed with a planar mirror Fabry-Perot interferometer used in a static imaging mode, with the images recorded on a cooled, high-quantum-efficiency charge-coupled discharge (CCD) camera.
	www.lerc.nasa.gov /WWW/RT1996/2000/2520s.htm (398 words)

	Lord Rayleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		The Theory of Sound, Chapter 1 - Lord Rayleigh Internet version of Chapter 1 of The Theory of Sound by Lord Rayleigh (published in 1877).
		Chapter 1 is an introduction to acoustics which reveals Rayleigh's strong interest in musical acoustics and the Helmholtz resonator.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Lord_Rayleigh.html (313 words)

	On a Possibility of Rayleigh Transformed Sub-Surface Waves Propagation
		Rayleigh surface waves were discovered theoretically as a solution of wave equation.
		This paper is considering possibility to use additional (extraneous) real roots of Rayleigh equation for explanation of existence of a special type of leaky waves, which propagate on the border of half-space solid and vacuum.
		The second type of the LSW could be presented by Rayleigh type of waves: on the border between solid half-space and liquid [7]; and Lamb type of waves in plates immersed into liquid [8].
	www.ndt.net /article/v05n09/nesvi/nesvi.htm (2306 words)

	Rayleigh jets come into view (January 2003) - News - PhysicsWeb
		Lord Rayleigh showed that, for a given charge, droplets are only stable when their radius exceeds the “Rayleigh limit”.
		Rayleigh suggested that when a charged droplet becomes unstable, it ejects a microscopic jet of liquid from each end before returning to equilibrium.
		When the Rayleigh limit is reached, fine jets containing about one hundred droplets each are ejected from both ends of the ellipsoids.
	physicsweb.org /article/news/7/1/3 (454 words)

	Rayleigh Wave Page
		Rayleigh waves, also known as "ground roll", are the result of an incident P and SV plane waves interacting at the free surface and traveling parallel to that surface.
		Ralyleigh waves travel along the surface with a retrograde elliptical particle motion and changing to prograde with depth passing through a node where there is no motion at all.
		This means that Rayleigh waves are usually the largest amplitude waves on a broadband seismometer.
	www.uwm.edu /~bketter/Research/Surface_Theory/Rayleigh/rayleigh_index.html (168 words)

	Rayleigh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arms of the former Rayleigh Urban District Council
		John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh was a notable physicist and baron of Rayleigh.
		Rayleigh is a market town in Essex, England located between Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rayleigh (103 words)

	Rayleigh Distribution
		The Rayleigh distribution is used as a model for wind speed.
		Where the Rayleigh distribution is a poor model for a given location, it may be appropriate to fit the data to a Weibull distribution.
		This is effectively changing the shape factor from an independent variable to a dependent one (the Rayleigh distribution is a Weibull one with the shape factor set to two).
	www.brighton-webs.co.uk /distributions/rayleigh.asp (613 words)

	JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT RAYLEIGH - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT RAYLEIGH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lord Rayleigh had an interest in abnormal psychological investigations, and became a member and vicepresident of the Society for Psychical Research.
		He was one of the original members of the Order of Merit, instituted in connection with the coronation of King Edward VII.
		He remained president till 1908, in which year he was chosen to succeed the 8th duke of Devonshire as chancellor of Cambridge University.
	63.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RAYLEIGH_JOHN_WILLIAM_STRUTT.htm (698 words)

	Rayleigh Explanation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I keep adjusting the input wind speed to the Raleigh distribution until the effective velocity of the Rayleigh distribution matches the effective velocity that the wind turbine actually experienced.
		If I report the average wind speed of 13.25 mph, and a Rayleigh wind speed of 13.6 mph, that says that my 13.25 mph winds had the same energy as a 13.6 mph average wind with a Rayleigh distribution.
		The significance of this is that manufacturers assume a Rayleigh distribution in estimating the energy a turbine would produce given a certain wind speed.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndsu/klemen/Rayleigh_Explanation.htm (342 words)

	The Rayleigh problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rayleigh's solution of the thermal convection problem is considered a major triumph of the linear stability theory.
		The concept of critical Rayleigh number finds application in such geophysical problems as solar convection, cloud formation in the atmosphere, and the motion of the earth's core.
		At this point it is useful to show that the Rayleigh number is the ratio of the buoyancy force to the viscous force.
	astron.berkeley.edu /~jrg/ay202/node133.html (622 words)

	Rayleigh Horticultural Society History
		The inaugural meeting of "The Rayleigh Allotment and Garden Association"(incorporating The Rayleigh Horticultural Society) was held in April 1941.The association was probably formed in response to the Goverment's "Dig for Victory Campaign".
		Rayleigh won the shield for highest number of points overall.
		We depend on the willingness of many volunteers, this is not an easy task, but with the membership average of 1000 households, and members continuing support, we hope to be a strong Society for many years to come.
	geocities.com /rayleighhorticulturalsociety/rayleigh_h_s_history.html (474 words)

	Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The particles in a solid, through which a Rayleigh surface wave passes, move in elliptical paths, with the major axis of the ellipse perpendicular to the surface of the solid.
		Rayleigh waves are different from water waves in one important way.
		However, in a Rayleigh surface wave, particles at the surface trace out a counter-clockwise ellipse, while particles at a depth of more than 1/5th of a wavelength trace out clockwise ellispes.
	www.gmi.edu /~drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html (528 words)

	Rayleigh : Abrexa.co.uk UK directory
		Rayleigh Brass - A non-contesting band, playing at various venues throughout the area.
		Rayleigh Jobs - Job opportunities in and around Rayleigh, direct from local employers and selected local agencies.
		Rayleigh Karting - Claims the longest indoor circuit in Essex.
	www.abrexa.co.uk /England/Essex/Rayleigh (411 words)

	Rayleigh nitrogen statistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The discovery of the element argon by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay had its origins in Rayleigh's measurements of the density of nitrogen with an eye toward accurate determination of its molar mass.
		Rayleigh prepared some samples by removing oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor from atmospheric air; he prepared other samples by chemical reaction of nitrogen-containing compounds and subsequent purification.
		Based on the means and standard deviations computed in exercise 2, plot the normal distributions of "chemical nitrogen" and "atmospheric nitrogen." Answer question (2c) with reference to the plot of distributions.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~giunta/classicalcs/rayleighN2.html (392 words)

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