Consider an ideal gas composed of helium atoms. The collisions between atoms are similar to the collisions
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Consider an ideal gas composed of helium atoms. The collisions between atoms are similar to the collisions between billiard balls. That is, whenever the distance between two atoms is less than 2r (where r is the radius of a helium atom), the two atoms undergo a collision. Show that the mean free path between collisions ℓ is proportional to 1/ρ, where r is the density of the gas.
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College Physics Reasoning and Relationships
ISBN: 978-0840058195
2nd edition
Authors: Nicholas Giordano
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