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    The kinetic theory of gases is a simple classical model of the thermodynamic behavior of gases. Its introduction allowed many principal concepts of thermodynamics...
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  • Kinetic theory may refer to: Kinetic theory of matter: A general account of the properties of matter, including solids liquids and gases, based around...
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    T=I/I_{0}=e^{-x/\ell }} , where x is equal to the thickness of the slab. In the kinetic theory of gases, the mean free path of a particle, such as a molecule, is the average...
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    was recognized long before the kinetic theory of gases was developed (see Boyle's and Charles's laws). The ideal gas law states: p V = n R T , {\displaystyle...
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    dioxide). A gas mixture, such as air, contains a variety of pure gases. What distinguishes gases from liquids and solids is the vast separation of the individual...
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    range of speeds than another. The kinetic theory of gases applies to the classical ideal gas, which is an idealization of real gases. In real gases, there...
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  • Molecular chaos (category Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics)
    In the kinetic theory of gases in physics, the molecular chaos hypothesis (also called Stosszahlansatz in the writings of Paul and Tatiana Ehrenfest) is...
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  • John Herapath (category Discoverers of comets)
    partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it was neglected by the scientific community at the time. He was the cousin of William Herapath...
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    John James Waterston (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    neglected pioneer of the kinetic theory of gases. Waterston's father, George, was an Edinburgh sealing wax manufacturer and stationer, a relative of the Sandeman...
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    of the other (heavier gases diffuse more slowly). A complete theoretical explanation of Graham's law was provided years later by the kinetic theory of...
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  • flows of gas fuel within a jet engine. At the molecular level, gas dynamics is a study of the kinetic theory of gases, often leading to the study of gas diffusion...
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    Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, a statistical means of describing aspects of the kinetic theory of gases, which he worked on sporadically throughout his career...
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    Molecule (redirect from Molecular theory)
    oxygen atom; H2O). In the kinetic theory of gases, the term molecule is often used for any gaseous particle regardless of its composition. This relaxes...
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  • Le Sage's theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage...
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  • free path of the molecule is the product of the average speed and the mean free time. These concepts are used in the kinetic theory of gases to compute...
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    the kinetic theory of gases, by presenting work where he modelled the gas particles as moving in random directions at random velocities. The kinetic theory...
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    David Enskog (category Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    was a Swedish mathematical physicist. Enskog helped develop the kinetic theory of gases by extending the Maxwell–Boltzmann equations. After undergraduate...
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  • Carlo Cercignani (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    on the kinetic theory of gases. His contributions to the study of Boltzmann's equation include the proof of the H-theorem for polyatomic gases. The Cercignani...
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    Ludwig Boltzmann (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    the inscription of Boltzmann's entropy formula: S = k ⋅ log ⁡ W {\displaystyle S=k\cdot \log W} . Boltzmann's kinetic theory of gases seemed to presuppose...
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    Boyle's law (category Gas laws)
    established the kinetic theory of gases and brought attention to both the theories of Bernoulli and Waterston. The debate between proponents of energetics...
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    Georges-Louis Le Sage (category 18th-century physicists from the Republic of Geneva)
    most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. He was a contributor...
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    is the amount of substance; and R {\displaystyle R} is the ideal gas constant. It can also be derived from the microscopic kinetic theory, as was achieved...
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  • the kinetic theory of gases: if a container, with a fixed number of molecules inside, is reduced in volume, more molecules will strike a given area of the...
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  • In physics (specifically, the kinetic theory of gases), the Einstein relation is a previously unexpected[clarification needed] connection revealed independently...
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    of debate. Big Bang Chaos theory Classical mechanics Classical field theory Dynamo theory Field theory Ginzburg–Landau theory Kinetic theory of gases...
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  • Thumbnail for Hilbert's sixth problem
    development of the method of mean values in mathematical physics, and in particular in the kinetic theory of gases. ... Boltzmann's work on the principles of mechanics...
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    speed of sound, the kinetic theory of gases, which determines the speed of sound, provides a more detailed analysis in terms of the gas particles that comprise...
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    (from the Kinetic Theory of Gases, Wikipedia) ... In 1856 August Krönig (probably after reading a paper of Waterston) created a simple gas-kinetic model,...
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    for the kinetic theory of gases. In this work, Bernoulli positioned the argument, still used to this day, that gases consist of great numbers of molecules...
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    Diffusion (redirect from Rate of diffusion)
    The Mathematical Theory of Non-uniform Gases: An Account of the Kinetic Theory of Viscosity, Thermal Conduction and Diffusion in Gases, Cambridge University...
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