| Scientific Papers: Volume 1, 1869-1881 Contributor(s): Strutt, John William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511703961 ISBN-13: 9780511703966 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Open Ebook Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Atomic & Molecular |
| Dewey: 530 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Moir 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. |