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23 April 2022

  • curprev 15:5715:57, 23 April 2022 imported>ELApro 16,329 bytes +16,329 →Quotes about Clausius: Tom Siegfried, A Beautiful Math (2006) Ch. 7, p. 139: essential feature of Maxwell..not if gas molecules all..similar "avg" velocity, as Clausius surmised, but..all..speeds, most near avg..some substantially fastr/slowr..a few very fast/slow. Just as Quetelet's avg man was fictitious..understandg gases meant figurg..range &distributn of molecular velocities around the avg..that distribution, Maxwell calculated, matched bell-curve describg range of measurement errors
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