An Introduction to Thermal Physics · Problem 1.68

Energy in Thermal Physics — Daniel Schroeder

Physics — Statistical Mechanics · diffusion

Problem

Suppose you open a bottle of perfume at one end of a room. Very roughly, how much time would pass before a person at the other end of the room could smell the perfume, if diffusion were the only transport mechanism? Do you think diffusion is the dominant transport mechanism in this situation?

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