 | Electrical engineering - 1891 - 860 pages
...number of imolecules of a gas at any given pressure and temperature is called the mean free patii. The molecules exert pressure in all directions, and...ordinary gases, the length of the mean free path of the molecule« is exceedingly small compared with the dimensions of the vessel, and the properties we then... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1879 - 622 pages
...in rapid movement in all directions, each having millions of encounters in a second. In such a case the length of the mean free path of the molecules is exceedingly small as compared with the dimensions of the vessel, and the properties which constitute the ordinary gaseous... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1879 - 598 pages
...in rapid movement in all directions, each having millions of encounters in a second. In such a case, the length of the mean free path of the molecules is exceedingly small as compared with the dimensions of the vessel, and the properties which constitute the ordinary gaseous... | |
 | Engineering - 1879 - 550 pages
...rapid motion in all directions, each having millions of encounters in a second. In such a supposition the length of the mean free path of the molecules is exceedingly small as compared with the dimensions of the vessel, and the conditions are such that the constant collisions,... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1879 - 630 pages
...in rapid movement in all directions, each having millions of encounters in a second. In such a case, the length of the mean free path of the molecules is exceedingly small as compared with the dimensions of the vessel, and the properties which constitute the ordinary gaseous... | |
 | WILLIAM CROOKES, F. R. S., &c. - 1880 - 668 pages
...movement in all directions, each molecule having millions of encounters in a second. In such a case, the length of the mean free path of the molecules...exceedingly small compared with the dimensions of the containing vessel, and the properties which constitute the ordinary gaseous state of matter, which... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1880 - 528 pages
...movement in all directions, each molecule having millions of encounters in a second. In such a case, the length of the mean free path of the molecules...exceedingly small compared with the dimensions of the containing vessel, and the properties which constitute the ordinary gaseous state of matter, which... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1880 - 624 pages
...movement in all directions, each molecule having millions of encounters in a second. In such a case, the length of the mean free path of the molecules...exceedingly small compared with the dimensions of the containing vessel, and the properties which constitute the ordinary gaseous state of matter, which... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 902 pages
...from those which it obeys at atmospheric pressure. In the vessels with the lower degree of exhaustion, the length of the mean free path of the molecules is exceedingly small as compared with the dimensions of the bulb, and the properties belonging to the ordinary gaseous state... | |
 | Robert M. Ferguson - Electricity - 1882 - 410 pages
...electrode without coming into collision with one another. In the language of the kinetic theory of gases, the length of the mean free path of the molecules is now equal to the length of the tube. In this high vacuum, the stream of molecules proceeding from the... | |
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A given space contains millions of millions of molecules in rapid movement in all directions, each molecule having millions of encounters in a second. In such a case, the length of the mean free path of the molecules is exceedingly small compared with... 
