The Gaseous State . On the other hand , it is possible for the whole of the liquid to
be transformed into vapour in this way , before a steady state is reached . Here
we have the kinetic theory picture of a gas — a crowd of molecules , each moving
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Author: James Jeans
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 0521092329
Category: Science
Page: 311
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This book can be described as a student's edition of the author's Dynamical Theory of Gases. It is written, however, with the needs of the student of physics and physical chemistry in mind, and those parts of which the interest was mainly mathematical have been discarded. This does not mean that the book contains no serious mathematical discussion; the discussion in particular of the distribution law is quite detailed; but in the main the mathematics is concerned with the discussion of particular phenomena rather than with the discussion of fundamentals.