Early pioneers of this theory included Waterston and Daniel Bernoulli, who discussed it in his Hydrodynamica. The Knudsen regime is a more recent expansion of it, as are higher order virial expansions. Some of this theory's assumptions are that atoms have negligible volume, elastically collide with each other, and have negligible interactions with each other. For 10 points, name this theory that describes the macroscopic properties of gases largely through the Maxwell-Boltzman distribution of their velocities as they un
Early pioneers of this theory included Waterston and Daniel Bernoulli, who discussed it in his Hydrodynamica. The Knudsen regime is a more recent expansion of it, as are higher order virial expansions. Some of this theory's assumptions are that atoms have negligible volume, elastically collide with each other, and have negligible interactions with each other. For 10 points, name this theory that describes the macroscopic properties of gases largely through the Maxwell-Boltzman distribution of their velocities as they undergo motion.
Early pioneers of this theory included Waterston and Daniel Bernoulli, who discussed it in his Hydrodynamica.
{kinetic} theory of gases [prompt on "{collision}" {theory}]