Men of Physics: Lord Rayleigh–The Man and his Work

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages vii-viii
Biographical Sketch of John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), Pages 3-12
Lord Rayleigh's Contributions to Science, Pages 15-37
Bibliography of the Writings of Lord Rayleigh, Pages 38-71
On the Theory of Resonance (1870), Pages 75-84
On the Light from the Sky, its Polarization and Colour (1871), Pages 85-92
On the Manufacture and Theory of Diffraction-Gratings (1874), Pages 93-99
Our Perception of the Direction of a Source of Sound (1876), Pages 100-103
On the Application of the Principle of Reciprocity to Acoustics (1876), Pages 104-110
On the Stability, or Instability, of Certain Fluid Motions (1880), Pages 111-115
Address to the Mathematical and Physical Science Section of the British Association (1882), Pages 116-124
On an Instrument Capable of Measuring the Intensity of Aerial Vibrations (1882), Pages 125-126
On the Circulation of Air Observed in Kundt's Tubes, and on Some Allied Acoustical Problems (1883), Pages 127-137
Presidential Address to the British Association's Montreal Meeting (1884), Pages 138-154
On Waves Propagated Along the Plane Surface of an Elastic Solid (1885), Pages 155-163
On the Physics of Media that are Composed of Free and Perfectly Elastic Molecules in a State of Motion (1892), Pages 164-168
Density of Nitrogen (1892), Pages 169-170
Argon (1895), Pages 171-190
On the Cooling of Air by Radiation and Conduction, and on the Propagation of Sound (1899), Pages 191-194
Remarks upon the Law of Complete Radiation (1900), Pages 195-198
Is Rotatory Polarization influenced by the Earth's Motion? (1902), Pages 199-205
On Electrical Vibrations and the Constitution of the Atom (1906), Pages 206-212
Note as to the Application of the Principle of Dynamical Similarity (1909–10), Pages 213-215
Letter to Professor Nernst (1911), Pages 216-217
The Pressure of Radiation and Carnot's Principle (1914), Pages 218-220
On the Pressure Developed in a Liquid During the Collapse of a Spherical Cavity (1917), Pages 221-226
Presidential Address to the Society for Psychical Research (1919), Pages 227-242
Index, Pages 243-251