Stokes, Sir George

Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903) was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (a position once held by Sir Isaac Newton and now held by Stephen Hawking), and a former President of the Royal Society. Stokes was one of the foremost mathematicians of his time and established the field of hydrodynamics. 

Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903) British physicist and mathematician, born in Ireland, who worked at Cambridge University all his life. He is best known for Stokes law, concerning the movement of objects in a fluid. The stokes is named after him. 

Stokes (Sir) George Gabriel (1819-1903) Brit, math., laid foundation of scientific hydrodynamics, theory of fluid motion, Stokes Law describes motion of small spheres in viscous fluid, established semi-convergent series used with Bessel and Furrier series, studied variation in gravity Stolcius Daniel (1600-1660) Czech alchemist, author of Viridarium chimicum and cofounder of mystic society Fraternitas Roseae Crucis ... 

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1819-1903. English mathematician and physicist, professor in Cambridge. 

Thus, the emission spectrum has its maximum shifted to longer wavelengths compared to the maximum of absorption spectrum (Figure 7.3). Sir George Stokes observed this shift for the first time in 1852 and since this time it is called the Stokes shift. 

Another important relationship used to describe the movement of a heavier solid object through a fluid was derived by Sir George Stokes. In the case that the object is a sphere, the viscous drag or force on it in the direction opposite to its movement is... 

We will see in Chapter 11 that in 1850 the British physicist Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) proposed a very simple relationship between the diffusion coefficient D and the radius r of the diffusing molecule, on the assumption that it is. spherical. Stokes s law is... 

Most theoretical treatments of ionic conductance have been based on an equation published well over a century ago by Sir George Stokes " although it was not applied to ions until much later. Stokes derived hydrodynamically the steady-state velocity with which a large sphere... 

Stokes law A law that predicts the frictional force f on a spherical ball moving through a viscous medium. According to this law F = Biurti v, where r is the radius of the ball, 1/ is its velocity, and ti is the viscosity of the medium. The sphere accelerates until it reaches a steady terminal speed. For a falling ball, f is equal to the gravitational force on the sphere, less any upthrust. The law was discovered by Sir George Stokes. 

If the medium is initially in its ground state, the scattered wave is at a lower frequency (longer wavelength) than the incident wave, and the medium is excited to one of its internal energy levels during the interaction. In this situation the frequency shift is termed a Stokes shift, in analogy to the shift to lower frequencies that is observed in fluorescence (which was explained by Sir George Stokes), and the scattered wave is termed a Stokes wave. The incident (laser) and scattered (Stokes) frequencies are related by... 

In 1843, Adhemar-Jean-Claude Barre de Saint Venant developed the most general form of the differential equations describing the motion of fluids, known as the Saint Venant equations. They are sometimes called Navier-Stokes equations after Claude-Louis Navier and Sir George Gabriel Stokes, who were working on them around the same time. 

Larmor, Joseph. Sir George Gabriel Stokes. Memoir and Scientific Correspondence. 

Williams, David. Catalogue of the Manuscript Collections of Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Lord Kelvin. Cambridge University Library. 1970. All the letters mentioned are catalogued here. 

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