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THE difficulty of reconciling line spectra with the kinetic theory of gases ... fact that the vibrations of a gas are not quite homogeneous, is borne out by experiment. If impacts become more ...

Nearly 80 years later Russian physicists have found they can model this surprise tactic with a scientific law: the kinetic theory of gases. The parallels are obvious enough, with some creative ...

NEW books on the kinetic theory of gases are rather rare phenomena. The best early comprehensive works on the subject were written in German, by O. E. Meyer (“Kinetische Theorie der Gase ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the growth of ideas about gas pressure ... and Ludwig Boltzmann used statistics to support this kinetic theory. Ideas about atoms developed in tandem with this ...