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A simulation of hard spheres gas for educational purposes

Physics Education 2008-11-06 v1 Popular Physics

Abstract

We describe an educational simulation of some effects within the gas of hard spheres. The focus of the presented simulation is on the comprehension of random character of the velocity of molecules in the gas and of the energy at fixed temperature. It allows to point out the connection between the temperature, the energy, and the velocity of the molecules.

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@article{arxiv.0811.0677,
  title  = {A simulation of hard spheres gas for educational purposes},
  author = {Michal Meres and Boris Tomasik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0677},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures (8 eps files), uses iopart.cls

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