UID:
edocfu_9959345472202883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 562 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-70396-1
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Mathematical sciences
Content:
Lord Rayleigh won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1904. His early research was in optics & 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), & in 1872 he wrote his classic Theory of Sound. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society & 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 & successor to Maxwell as Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge, Rayleigh published a paper on diffraction gratings which led to improvements in the spectroscope & future developments in high-resolution spectroscopy. This volume contains papers from 1869 to 1881.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2011.
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Originally published: Cambridge: University Press, 1899.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-00542-X
Language:
English
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