...applied the same treatment to other branches of theoretical physics. Maxwell's gas-molecules, which repel each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of their distance, may be conceived as mechanical analogies, and at first investigators were not wanting who, not understanding...

...the assumption that n was equal to unity for all gases Maxwell deduced that the molecules must repel each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of the distance between them. This hypothesis, however, had to be abandoned when it became certain that...

...the assumption that n was equal to unity for all gases Maxwell deduced that the molecules must repel each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of the distance between them. This hypothesis, however, had to be abandoned when it became certain that...

...'2-M2~' '' and But the first conclusions of Stefan's would apply only where the molecules act upon each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of the distance. In this case the factor r disappears from the expression dZ, and on further integration...

...branches of theoretical physics. As mechanical analogies may bo cited Maxwell's gas molecules which repel each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of their distance, and at first investigators were not wanting who, not understanding Maxwell's tendency, considered his...

...branches of theoretical physics. As mechanical analogies may be cited Maxwell's gas molecules which repel each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of their distance, and at first investigators were not wanting who, not understanding Maxwell's tendency, considered his...

...Theoretischen Physik' in Populaere Vorlesungen, 8). He pointed out that 'Maxwell's gas molecules which repel each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of their distance' are analogies and not real things, and he merged Hertz's idea ofphantom pictures with Maxwell's very...

...difficulties with the kinetic theory. He found Maxwell's early assumption, that gas molecules repel each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of their distance, to be "purely gratuitious," "without experimental analogy," and "in direct defiance . . . of actual...

...temperature decrease. • SD Poisson, Ann. chim. phys. 23, 337 (1823). CHAPTER III The molecules repel each other with a force Inversely proportional to the fifth power of their distance. §2I. Integration of the terms resulting from collisions. We now consider cases where Equations (147)...

...the gas-molecules are neither strictly spherical nor absolutely elastic, and that their centers repel each other with a force inversely proportional to the fifth power of their distance;28 while Stefan29 endeavors to adjust the hypothesis to the phenomena in question by postulating...