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2. Numerical and other Additions to his Paper, Read on 6th December 1886, on the Foundations of the Kinetic Theory of Gases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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In the case of diffusion, in a long tube of unit section, suppose that we have, at section x of the tube, n1P1s and n2P2s per cubic unit, with translational speeds α1 and α2, respectively. If G1 be the whole mass of the first gas on the negative side of the section, it is shown that the rate of flow of that gas is

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Proceedings 1886-87
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1888

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