Rayleigh may refer to:
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Rayleigh scattering
Rayleigh scattering ( ), named after the 19th-century British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the predominantly elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the ...
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Rayleigh–Jeans law
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Rayleigh wave
Rayleigh waves are a type of surface acoustic wave that travel along the surface of solids. They can be produced in materials in many ways, such as by a localized impact or by piezo-electric transduction, and are frequently used in non-destructi ...
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Rayleigh (unit), a unit of photon flux named after the 4th Baron Rayleigh
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Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh, two units of specific acoustic impedance and characteristic acoustic impedance, named after the 3rd Baron Rayleigh
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angular resolution
Angular resolution describes the ability of any image-forming device such as an Optical telescope, optical or radio telescope, a microscope, a camera, or an Human eye, eye, to distinguish small details of an object, thereby making it a major det ...
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Rayleigh distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the Rayleigh distribution is a continuous probability distribution for nonnegative-valued random variables. Up to rescaling, it coincides with the chi distribution with two degrees of freedom.
The distribu ...
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Rayleigh fading 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 fading models assume that the magnitude of a signal that has passed through such a transmissio ...
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Rayleigh law on low-field magnetization
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Rayleigh length
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Rayleigh number, a dimensionless number for a fluid associated with buoyancy driven flow
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Rayleigh quotient
In mathematics, the Rayleigh quotient () for a given complex Hermitian matrix ''M'' and nonzero vector ''x'' is defined as:
R(M,x) = .
For real matrices and vectors, the condition of being Hermitian reduces to that of being symmetric, and the ...
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Rayleigh–Ritz method
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Plateau–Rayleigh instability explains why a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets
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Rayleigh–Taylor instability
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 densities which occurs when the lighter fluid is pushing the heavier fluid.
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an instability of an interface between two fluids
Title of nobility
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Baron Rayleigh
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Charlotte Mary Gertrude Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh
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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English mathematician and physicist who made extensive contributions to science. He spent all of his academic career at the University of Cambridge. Amo ...
, physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1904
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Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, physicist; son of John William Strutt
Fictional name
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Silvers Rayleigh, a fictional character in One Piece
Places
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Rayleigh, British Columbia, Canada
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Rayleigh, Essex
Rayleigh is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Essex, England; it is located between Chelmsford, Essex, Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea, east of central London. It had a population of 32,150 at the census in 2011.
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, England
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Rayleigh (lunar crater)
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Rayleigh (Martian crater)
See also
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Raleigh (disambiguation) for a different spelling
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