Vol 5 - Landau Lifshitz Statistical Physics · Problem 39.1

Ideal Gases

Physics — Landau & Lifshitz · molecular-collisions-angle-distribution

Problem

Find the number of impacts of gas molecules on unit area of the wall per unit time for which the angle between the direction of the velocity of the molecule and the normal to the surface lies between θ\theta and θ+dθ\theta + \mathrm{d}\theta.

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