An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of GasesThis book can be described as a student's edition of the author's Dynamical Theory of Gases. It is written, however, with the needs of the student of physics and physical chemistry in mind, and those parts of which the interest was mainly mathematical have been discarded. This does not mean that the book contains no serious mathematical discussion; the discussion in particular of the distribution law is quite detailed; but in the main the mathematics is concerned with the discussion of particular phenomena rather than with the discussion of fundamentals. |
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Introduction page | 1 |
A Preliminary Survey | 17 |
Collisions and Maxwells Law | 103 |
The Free Path in a Gas | 131 |
Viscosity | 156 |
Conduction of Heat | 185 |
Diffusion | 198 |
General Theory of a Gas not in a Steady State | 225 |
Calorimetry and Molecular Structure | 275 |
Maxwells proof of the Law of Distribution of Velocities | 296 |
The Htheorem | 297 |
The Normal Partition of Energy | 299 |
The Law of Distribution of Coordinates | 301 |
Tables for Numerical Calculations | 305 |
Integrals involving Exponentials | 306 |
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