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... encounters . It is easy to see that if encounters take place among a great number of molecules , their velocities , even if originally equal , will become unequal , for , except under conditions which can be only rarely satisfied , two ...
... encounters . It is easy to see that if encounters take place among a great number of molecules , their velocities , even if originally equal , will become unequal , for , except under conditions which can be only rarely satisfied , two ...
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... encounter and changes its velocity , it passes out of one of these groups and enters another ; but as other molecules are also changing their velocities , the number of molecules in each group varies little from a certain average value ...
... encounter and changes its velocity , it passes out of one of these groups and enters another ; but as other molecules are also changing their velocities , the number of molecules in each group varies little from a certain average value ...
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... encounter each other in the time dt ; making therefore x = d and dx = ( u1ā u2 ) dt , it will follow that the number of collisions in time at of pairs of spheres with their lines of centres parallel to x and velocities between the above ...
... encounter each other in the time dt ; making therefore x = d and dx = ( u1ā u2 ) dt , it will follow that the number of collisions in time at of pairs of spheres with their lines of centres parallel to x and velocities between the above ...
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... encounters . At each encounter the whole molecule is roughly shaken . During the free path it vibrates according to its own laws , and these vibrations , as is the case in every connected system , may be resolved into a number of simple ...
... encounters . At each encounter the whole molecule is roughly shaken . During the free path it vibrates according to its own laws , and these vibrations , as is the case in every connected system , may be resolved into a number of simple ...
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... encounter between them , such encounters taking the place of the collisions in the case of the spheres , with this difference , that the time of an encounter will not be necessarily indefinitely small . We shall also consider that the ...
... encounter between them , such encounters taking the place of the collisions in the case of the spheres , with this difference , that the time of an encounter will not be necessarily indefinitely small . We shall also consider that the ...
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axis Balliol College Catalogus centre of mass cloth Codd component velocities Crown 8vo Demy 8vo density Dindorfii dv dw dx dy dz dy dz dt Edidit Editor elastic spheres encounters English Notes equal equation expression Extra fcap follows formerly Fellow function G. W. Kitchin Gaisford generalised coordinates Greek History hm c2 intermolecular forces Introduction and Notes kinetic energy Kinetic Theory last proposition Latin Ludwig Boltzmann mean value mean vis viva medium momenta motion number of collisions number of molecules number of pairs number of spheres Oriel College Pā pairs of molecules pairs of spheres Pe-hxds plane potential energy pressure recensuit Robinson Ellis S.T.P. Tomi Scholia Schools Second Edition set of molecules sets of spheres stiff covers Third Edition Thomas Gaisford total number translated u+du University of Oxford v+dv variables W. W. Skeat w+dw
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