Rayleigh
Rayleigh refers to:
- Rayleigh (Essex) , a place in the English county of Essex
- Rayleigh (constituency) , a constituency for the British House of Commons
- the title of nobility Baron Rayleigh , including
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , British physicist and Nobel Prize winner, discoverer of the duplex theory
- Rayleigh (moon crater) named after John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- (22740) Rayleigh , an asteroid of the main outer belt
- Rayleigh (unit) , photometric unit
See also:
- Rayl (obsolete unit of measurement for acoustic impedance )
- Rayleigh length
- Rayleigh distribution
- Rayleigh-Bénard convection
- Rayleigh Jeans Law
- Rayleigh's law (magnetism)
- Rayleigh criterion
- Rayleigh limit
- Rayleigh quotient
- Rayleigh-Ritz Principle
- Rayleigh scattering ; see also scattering (physics)
- Rayleigh-Taylor instability
- Rayleigh number
- Seismic wave (Rayleigh wave); see also acoustic surface wave
- Experiments by Rayleigh and Brace should show whether the Lorentz contraction leads to birefringence
- Rayleigh Medal (Institute of Acoustics)
- Rayleigh Medal (Institute of Physics)
- Raleigh
