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  2. Kinetic theory of gases - Wikipedia

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    To calculate the velocity distribution of particles hitting this small area, we must take into account that all the particles with (,,) that hit the area within the time interval are contained in the tilted pipe with a height of ⁡ and a volume of ⁡ (); Therefore, compared to the Maxwell distribution, the velocity distribution will have an ...

  3. Thermal velocity - Wikipedia

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    Thermal velocity or thermal speed is a typical velocity of the thermal motion of particles that make up a gas, liquid, etc. Thus, indirectly, thermal velocity is a measure of temperature. Technically speaking, it is a measure of the width of the peak in the Maxwell–Boltzmann particle velocity distribution

  4. Volcanic winter - Wikipedia

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    The conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfuric acid, which condenses rapidly in the stratosphere to form fine sulfate aerosols. A volcanic winter is a reduction in global temperatures caused by droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the Sun and raising Earth's albedo (increasing the reflection of solar radiation) after a large, sulfur-rich, particularly explosive volcanic eruption.

  5. Deposition (phase transition) - Wikipedia

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    Water vapour from humid winter-air deposits directly into a solid, crystalline frost pattern on a window, without ever being liquid in the process. Deposition is the phase transition in which gas transforms into solid without passing through the liquid phase. Deposition is a thermodynamic process.

  6. Atmospheric escape - Wikipedia

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    One classical thermal escape mechanism is Jeans escape, [1] named after British astronomer Sir James Jeans, who first described this process of atmospheric loss. [2] In a quantity of gas, the average velocity of any one molecule is measured by the gas's temperature, but the velocities of individual molecules change as they collide with one another, gaining and losing kinetic energy.

  7. Brrrutal: How long will this cold last? Your winter weather ...

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    Overall, the Climate Prediction Center, in its most recent winter forecast, said that despite the current eastern chill, a milder-than-average winter was still likely for the eastern and southern U.S.

  8. 'Crazy to see': Deep freeze, snow blankets parts of US as ...

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    Winter storm warnings were in effect from Texas through the Carolinas, according to the National Weather Service. As of 8 p.m. ET, more than 2,200 U.S. flights had been canceled , according to ...

  9. Brownian motion - Wikipedia

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    2-dimensional random walk of a silver adatom on an Ag(111) surface [1] Simulation of the Brownian motion of a large particle, analogous to a dust particle, that collides with a large set of smaller particles, analogous to molecules of a gas, which move with different velocities in different random directions.