1889•Proceedings of the Royal Society of EdinburghRequires access
4. On the Mean Free Path, and the average Number of Collisions per particle per second in a Group of Equal Spheres
Tait
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Abstract
There is general agreement as to the value of the quantity nv, which expresses the fraction of the whole group whose members have speeds from v to v + dv; and as to the corresponding Mean Path pv,. The “mean,” in this case, is found according to the definition given by De Morgan:—