Rayleigh waves are a type of surface acoustic wave that travel along the surface of solids. They can be produced in materials in many ways, such as by...
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The term Rayleigh–Lamb waves embraces the Rayleigh wave, a type of wave that propagates along a single surface. Both Rayleigh and Lamb waves are constrained...
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waves in 1911. They usually travel slightly faster than Rayleigh waves, about 90% of the S wave velocity. A Stoneley wave is a type of boundary wave (or...
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"Rayleigh scattering", which notably explains why the sky is blue. He studied and described transverse surface waves in solids, now known as "Rayleigh...
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are two types of surface waves, namely Rayleigh waves and Love waves. Rayleigh waves, also known as ground roll, are waves that travel as ripples with...
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P-waves(compressional waves) and S-waves(transverse waves). Surface waves are classified into two basic types, Rayleigh waves and Love waves. Rayleigh waves travel in...
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Rayleigh scattering (/ˈreɪli/ RAY-lee) is the scattering or deflection of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles with a size much smaller...
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waves), or Rayleigh waves (another type of surface wave). Love waves travel with a lower velocity than P- or S- waves, but faster than Rayleigh waves. These...
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amplitude and velocity of the wave, allowing SAW sensors to directly sense mass and mechanical properties. The term 'Rayleigh waves' is often used synonymously...
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body waves—the primary (P waves) and secondary waves (S waves)—and surface waves, such as Rayleigh waves, Love waves, and Stoneley waves. A shock wave is...
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mechanical sense, are commonly known as either Love waves (L waves) or Rayleigh waves. A seismic wave is a wave that travels through the Earth, often as the...
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In probability theory and statistics, the Rayleigh distribution is a continuous probability distribution for nonnegative-valued random variables. Up to...
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Rayleigh may refer to: Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh–Jeans law Rayleigh waves Rayleigh (unit), a unit of photon flux named after the 4th Baron Rayleigh...
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tissues. Earthquake Early Warning (Japan) Lamb waves Longitudinal wave Love wave Rayleigh wave Shear wave splitting "Seismology | UPSeis | Michigan Tech"...
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Angular resolution (redirect from Rayleigh's criterion)
small. The value that quantifies this property, θ, which is given by the Rayleigh criterion, is low for a system with a high resolution. The closely related...
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because it travels at a speed of 330 m/s, the speed of sound in air. A Rayleigh wave typically propagates along a free surface of a solid, but the elastic...
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Seismic magnitude scales (redirect from Body-wave magnitude)
Surface waves propagate along the Earth's surface, and are principally either Rayleigh waves or Love waves. For shallow earthquakes the surface waves carry...
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fading may be more applicable. Rayleigh fading is a special case of two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading. Rayleigh fading is a reasonable model when...
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In fluid dynamics, the Plateau–Rayleigh instability, often just called the Rayleigh instability, explains why and how a falling stream of fluid breaks...
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Tsunami (redirect from Tsunami wave train)
hypothesise that some animal species have an ability to sense subsonic Rayleigh waves from an earthquake or a tsunami. If correct, monitoring their behaviour...
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In physics, the Rayleigh–Jeans law is an approximation to the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation as a function of wavelength from a black body...
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discovered it in 1947. This wave is similar to a Stoneley wave, which propagates at a solid-solid interface, and a Rayleigh wave, which propagates at a vacuum-solid...
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secondary and Rayleigh waves. The amount of warning depends on the delay between the arrival of the P wave and other destructive waves, generally on the...
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Mie scattering (redirect from Rayleigh–Gans)
doi:10.1007/BF01078707. S2CID 118762566. Rayleigh, Lord (1897). "On the incidence of aerial and electric waves upon small obstacles in the form of ellipsoids...
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model Rayleigh–Sommerfeld diffraction theory Rayleigh wave equation Rayleigh waves Rayleigh's criterion Janzen–Rayleigh expansion Plateau–Rayleigh instability...
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Microseism (section Body wave microseisms)
seismic waves that make up the microseismic field are Rayleigh waves, but Love waves can make up a significant fraction of the wave field, and body waves are...
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This is a list of wave topics. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...
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^ {\displaystyle {\hat {z}}} axis with wave number k = 2 π / λ {\displaystyle k=2\pi /\lambda } , the Rayleigh length is given by z R = π w 0 2 λ = 1...
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Phonon (section Lattice waves)
scattering Fracton Linear elasticity Mechanical wave Phonon scattering Carrier scattering Phononic crystal Rayleigh wave Relativistic heat conduction Rigid unit...
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Normal mode (section Standing waves)
to surface and at large l this tends to Rayleigh waves. Toroidal modes only involve SH waves (like Love waves) and do not exist in fluid outer core. Radial...
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