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Kinetic theory of gases

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mathematical model explaining macroscopic properties of gases in microscopic terms

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The kinetical theory of gases is a good example of this. This theory is intended to explain certain simple formulæ, the chief of which is called the law of Boyle.
Charles S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic
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It is the study of this mean order which constitutes the kinetic theory of gases; it shows us that the velocities of the molecules are equally distributed among all the directions, that the rapidity of these velocities varies from one molecule to another, but that even this variation is subject to a law called Maxwell's law. This law tells us how many of the molecules move with such and such a velocity.
Henri Poincaré, The Foundations of Science
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With the statement of the kinetic theory of gases that, in gases, the squares of the speeds with which the separate gas molecules move are in inverse ratio to the molecular weights, under the same temperature, heat takes its place directly in the series of such measurable forms of motion. Ten years ago the newly discovered great fundamental law of motion was still understood as a mere law of the conservation of…
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
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