Kinetic Theory of Gases (Classic Reprint)

A bout twenty years before, the founders of the theory, Kronig and Clansius, had explained the expansive tendency of gases, and had calculated their pressure on the assumption that the smallest particles of gases do not repel each other, but are in rapid motion. From the theory based on this supposition not only were the laws of gases, so far as they were then known, deduced in simplest fashion, but also new laws, hitherto undreamt of, were discovered, which were afterwards confirmed when tested by experiment. These results, which we owe toM axwell and Clausius, quickly won to the theory many friends and adherents. But a deeper insight into the new theory was not then widely possessed, since the mathematical shape of the memoirs formed a grave obstacle for many readers.
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