Scientific Papers

John William Strutt

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511703966

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Volume 1: 1869–1881
John William Strutt

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: July 2011
Print publication year:: 2009
First published in:: 1899
Online ISBN:: 9780511703966
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511703966

Subjects:: Mathematics (general), Physics and Astronomy, Mathematical Methods, Atomic Physics, Molecular Physics and Chemical Physics
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

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Lord Rayleigh (1842–1919) won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1904. His early research was in optics and acoustics but his first published paper, from 1869, was an explanation of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. In 1871, he related the degree of light scattering to wavelength (part of the explanation for why the sky is blue), and in 1872 he wrote his classic Theory of Sound (not included here). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society and inherited his father's peerage in 1873. Rayleigh nevertheless continued groundbreaking research, including the first description of Moiré interference (1874). In 1881, while president of the London Mathematical Society (1878–1880) and successor to Maxwell as Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge (1879–1884), Rayleigh published a paper on diffraction gratings which led to improvements in the spectroscope and future developments in high-resolution spectroscopy. This volume contains papers from 1869 to 1881.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

PREFACE
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-xvi

1 - On some Electromagnetic Phenomena considered in connexion with the Dynamical Theory
pp 1-13

2 - On an Electromagnetic Experiment
pp 14-20

3 - On the values of the Integral being Laplace's Coefficients of the orders n, n', with an application to the Theory of Radiation
pp 21-25

4 - Remarks on a paper by Dr Sondhauss
pp 26-32

5 - On the Theory of Resonance
pp 33-75

6 - Note on the explanation of Coronas, as given in Verdet's Leçons d'Optique Physique, and other works
pp 76-78

7 - Some Experiments on Colour
pp 79-86

8 - On the Light from the Sky, its Polarization and Colour
pp 87-103

9 - On the Scattering of Light by small Particles
pp 104-110

10 - On Double Refraction
pp 111-119

11 - On the Reflection of Light from Transparent Matter
pp 120-134

12 - On a Correction sometimes required in Curves professing to represent the connexion between two Physical Magnitudes
pp 135-137

13 - On the Vibrations of a Gas contained within a Rigid Spherical Envelope
pp 138-138

14 - Investigation of the Disturbance produced by a Spherical Obstacle on the Waves of Sound
pp 139-139

15 - Notes on Bessel's Functions
pp 140-140

16 - On the Reflection and Refraction of Light by Intensely Opaque Matter
pp 141-156

17 - Preliminary note on the Reproduction of Diffraction-Gratings by means of Photography
pp 157-159

18 - On the Application of Photography to copy Diffraction-Gratings
pp 160-162

19 - On the Diffraction of Object-Glasses
pp 163-166

20 - An Experiment to illustrate the Induction on itself of an Electric Current
pp 167-169

21 - Some General Theorems relating to Vibrations
pp 170-181

22 - On the Nodal Lines of a Square Plate
pp 182-182

23 - Note on a Natural Limit to the Sharpness of Spectral Lines
pp 183-184

24 - On the Vibrations of Approximately Simple Systems
pp 185-185

25 - On the Fundamental Modes of a Vibrating System
pp 186-186

26 - Vibrations of Membranes
pp 187-187

27 - Harmonic Echoes
pp 188-189

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