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Rayleigh scattering causes the blue color of the daytime sky and the reddening of the Sun at sunset. Rayleigh scattering (/ ˈ r eɪ l i / RAY-lee), named after the 19th-century British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the predominantly elastic scattering of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles with a size much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.
In physics, scattering is a wide range of physical processes where moving particles or radiation of some form, such as light or sound, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by localized non-uniformities (including particles and radiation) in the medium through which they pass. In conventional use, this also includes deviation of ...
Light scattering by particles. Light scattering by particles is the process by which small particles (e.g. ice crystals, dust, atmospheric particulates, cosmic dust, and blood cells) scatter light causing optical phenomena such as the blue color of the sky, and halos . Maxwell's equations are the basis of theoretical and computational methods ...
Davisson–Germer experiment. Gold foil experiments, performed by Geiger and Marsden for Rutherford which discovered the atomic nucleus. Elucidation of the structure of DNA by X-ray crystallography. Discovery of the antiproton at the Bevatron. Discovery of W and Z bosons at CERN. Discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.
t. e. Thomson scattering is the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle, as described by classical electromagnetism. It is the low-energy limit of Compton scattering: the particle's kinetic energy and photon frequency do not change as a result of the scattering. [1] This limit is valid as long as the photon ...
t. e. In physics, Raman scattering or the Raman effect ( / ˈrɑːmən /) is the inelastic scattering of photons by matter, meaning that there is both an exchange of energy and a change in the light's direction. Typically this effect involves vibrational energy being gained by a molecule as incident photons from a visible laser are shifted to ...
Scattering. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scattering. This category is for scattering studied in particle physics . For light scattering, see category: Scattering, absorption and radiative transfer (optics) .
Transparency and translucency. Dichroic filters are created using optically transparent materials. In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions are ...