Rayleigh

Rayleigh may refer to:

Science

• Rayleigh scattering
• Rayleigh–Jeans law
• Rayleigh waves
• Rayleigh (unit), a unit of photon flux named after the 4th Baron Rayleigh
• Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh, two units of specific acoustic impedance and characteristic acoustic impedance, named after the 3rd Baron Rayleigh
• Rayleigh criterion in angular resolution
• Rayleigh distribution
• Rayleigh fading
• Rayleigh law on low-field magnetization
• Rayleigh length
• Rayleigh number, a dimensionless number for a fluid associated with buoyancy driven flow
• Rayleigh quotient
• Rayleigh–Ritz method
• Plateau–Rayleigh instability explains why a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets
• Rayleigh–Taylor instability an instability of an interface between two fluids

Title of nobility

• Baron Rayleigh
  • Charlotte Mary Gertrude Strutt, 1st Baroness Rayleigh
  • John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1904
  • Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
    , physicist; son of John William Strutt

Fictional name

• Silvers Rayleigh
  , a fictional character in One Piece

Places

• Rayleigh, British Columbia
  , Canada
• Rayleigh, Essex, England
• Rayleigh (lunar crater)
• Rayleigh (Martian crater)

See also

Look up rayleigh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Raleigh (disambiguation) for a different spelling

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rayleigh.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.