Rayleigh

Rayleigh may refer to:

• Rayleigh ( Essex ), a town in the English county of Essex
• The nobility title Baron Rayleigh, including John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, British physicist and Nobel laureate, discoverer of the duplex theory

See also:

• Rayl ( obsolete unit of characteristic acoustic impedance)
• Rayleigh
• Rayleigh distribution
• Rayleigh-Jeans law
• Rayleigh 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 surface acoustic wave
• Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace, should show whether the Lorentz contraction leads to birefringence

• Disambiguation