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  2. Kinetic theory of gases - Wikipedia

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    The kinetic theory of gases is a simple classical model ... Kinetic theory of matter ... the energy added to the system per gas particle kinetic degree of ...

  3. Kinetic theory - Wikipedia

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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 the idea that heat or temperature is a manifestation of atoms and molecules in constant agitation. Kinetic theory of gases, an account of gas properties in terms of motion and interaction of ...

  4. Brownian motion - Wikipedia

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    And since equipartition of energy applies, the kinetic energy of the Brownian particle, /, will be equal, on the average, to the kinetic energy of the surrounding fluid particle, /. In 1906 Smoluchowski published a one-dimensional model to describe a particle undergoing Brownian motion. [23]

  5. Plasma (physics) - Wikipedia

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    There are two common approaches to kinetic description of a plasma. One is based on representing the smoothed distribution function on a grid in velocity and position. The other, known as the particle-in-cell (PIC) technique, includes kinetic information by following the trajectories of a large number of individual particles. Kinetic models are ...

  6. Plasma modeling - Wikipedia

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    The hybrid model is a combination of fluid and kinetic models, treating some components of the system as a fluid, and others kinetically. The hybrid model is sometimes applied in space physics , when the simulation domain exceeds thousands of ion gyroradius scales, making it impractical to solve kinetic equations for electrons.

  7. Le Sage's theory of gravitation - Wikipedia

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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 in 1748. The theory proposed a mechanical explanation for Newton's gravitational force in terms of streams of tiny unseen particles (which Le Sage called ultra-mundane corpuscles) impacting all material objects from all directions.

  8. Matter wave - Wikipedia

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    Matter waves are a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics, being half of wave–particle duality. At all scales where measurements have been practical, matter exhibits wave -like behavior. For example, a beam of electrons can be diffracted just like a beam of light or a water wave.

  9. Heat transfer physics - Wikipedia

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    From the kinetic theory of gases, [20] thermal conductivity of principal carrier i (p, e, f and ph) is =,, where n i is the carrier density and the heat capacity is per carrier, u i is the carrier speed and λ i is the mean free path (distance traveled by carrier before an scattering event). Thus, the larger the carrier density, heat capacity ...