Scientific Papers (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics)
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| Management number | 231999546 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$25.86 | Model Number | 231999546 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 110800542X |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1108005425 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Dimensions | 6.69 x 1.32 x 9.61 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.03 pounds |
| Print length | 584 pages |
| Publication date | July 20, 2009 |
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