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High energy infers high velocity and high velocity is a concept of special relativity. The Maxwellian velocity distribution is corrected to be consistent with special relativity. The corrected velocity distribution reduces to the Maxwellian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

We examine numerically and analytically the problem of the relativistic velocity distribution in a 1-dim relativistic gas in thermal equilibrium. Our derivation is based on the special theory of relativity, the central limit theorem and the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-01-25 Evaldo M. F. Curado , Felipe T. L. Germani , Ivano Damiao Soares

The current standard solar models can be improved by substituting the relativistic equilibrium velocity distribution for the Maxwellian velocity distribution. The relativistic equilibrium velocity distribution is close- fitting to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

We find the probability density function $\mathcal{P}(V_{\texttt{r}})$ of the relativistic relative velocity for two colliding particles in a non-degenerate relativistic gas. The distribution reduces to Maxwell distribution for the relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-02 M. Cannoni

High energy infers high velocity and high velocity is a concept of special relativity. The Maxwellian velocity distribution is corrected to be consistent with special relativity. The corrected distribution reduces to the Maxwellian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

What does it mean to ``add'' velocities relativistically -- clarification of the conceptual problems, new derivations of the related formulas, and identification of the source of the non-associativity of the standard vector version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-16 Jerzy Kocik

A new relativistic invariant version of nonlinear Maxwell equations is offerred. Some properties of these equations are considered.

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. A. Kotel'nikov

A procedure for generating random variates from a relativistic Maxwellian distribution with arbitrary temperature and drift velocity is presented. The algorithm is based on the rejection method and can be used to initialize particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Swisdak

We derive a Lorentz invariant distribution of velocities for a relativistic gas. Our derivation is based on three pillars: the special theory of relativity, the central limit theorem and the Lobachevskyian structure of the velocity space of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-04 Evaldo M. F. Curado , Ivano D. Soares

Selected aspects of the Maxwell-Boltzmann for molecular speeds are discussed, with special attention to physical effects of the low speed and high speed limits. We use simple approaches to study several topics which could be included in…

Physics Education · Physics 2014-10-28 Yi-Chi Yvette Wu , L. H. Ford

A simple numerical method for loading of a relativistic Maxwellian-type distribution is proposed based on inverse transform sampling. The relativistic Maxwellian energy distribution is introduced as an alternative to the Maxwell-J\"{u}ttner…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Takayuki Umeda

In this paper, the expression of the relativistic Maxwell-J\"uttner velocity distribution was deduced in a detailed and didactic way. This distribution was compared with the well-known Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, which does not take…

General Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Gilberto Jonas Damião , Clóves Gonçalves Rodrigues

A derivation of the relative velocity used in the definition of the relativistic cross-section is given in terms of manifestly Lorentz invariant quantities. Along the way we find that there is a certain arbitrariness in the usual definition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 David Garfinkle

The distributional form of the Maxwell-Vlasov equations are formulated. Submanifold distributions are analysed and the general submanifold distributional solutions to the Vlasov equations are given. The properties required so that these…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-03-31 Jonathan Gratus

Despite its importance, in the introductory disciplines of exact science courses, the demonstration of the Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution law is not explained, only its final equation is shown. In order to fill this deficiency, in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Gilberto Jonas Damião , Clóves Gonçalves Rodrigues

Maxwell's derivaion of the distributions of the velocities of molecules is based on the assumption that the velocity components in the three mutualy orthogonal directions are independent. Here we note that his assumption, the phase space is…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 S. Satheesh

Keeping the two fundamental postulates of the special theory of relativity, the principle of relativity and the constancy of the one-way velocity of light in all inertial frames of reference, and assuming two generalized Finslerian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

Many papers have been published over the years that either conjecture or even (claim to) prove the universality of the form of Maxwell's equations. We present yet another derivation of Maxwell's equations and discuss the conclusions…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 C. Baumgarten

The relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for the system of $N$ events with motion in space-time parametrized by an invariant ``historical time'' $\tau $ is considered without the simplifying approximation $m^2\cong M^2$, where $M$ is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

Two relativistic distributions which generalizes the Maxwell Boltzman (MB) distribution are analyzed: the relativistic MB and the Maxwell-J{\"u}ttner (MJ) distribution. For the two distributions we derived in terms of special functions the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-11 Lorenzo Zaninetti
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