kinetic theory of gases

noun

Physics.

a theory that the particles in a gas move freely and rapidly along straight lines but often collide, resulting in variations in their velocity and direction. Pressure is interpreted as arising from the impacts of these particles with the walls of a container.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of kinetic theory of gases¹

First recorded in 1870–75

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Nearly 80 years later Russian physicists have found they can model this surprise tactic with a scientific law: the kinetic theory of gases.

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According to the kinetic theory of gases, the conductivity of a gas depends on molecular diffusion.

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Clearly the great problems cannot all be solved by the kinetic theory of gases and the law of gravitation alone.

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Connecting the experimental study of the physical and chemical properties is the immense theoretical edifice termed the kinetic theory of gases.

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Townsend has shown that this value of the mean free path agrees well with the value 1⁄21 cm. deduced from the kinetic theory of gases for a corpuscle moving through air.

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kinetic theory kinetic theory of heat

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