Dr. of Philosophy Alfred Berger Brno Brünn is the German name for the city of Brno in the Czech Republic. QC 175 .B65 1896 Vol. I

LECTURES

ON

GAS THEORY

BY

DR. LUDWIG BOLTZMANN

PROFESSOR OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA.

PART I:

THEORY OF GASES WITH MONATOMIC MOLECULES,

WHOSE DIMENSIONS ARE NEGLIGIBLE COMPARED TO THE MEAN FREE PATH.

The "mean free path" refers to the average distance a molecule travels before colliding with another.

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LEIPZIG,

PUBLISHED BY JOHANN AMBROSIUS BARTH

(ARTHUR MEINER)

1896.

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