Jun 1874
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Nature, Volume 10, Issue 242, pp. 123 (1874).
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IN Prof. Maxwell's communication, NATURE, vol. viii., p. 537, on this subject, he assumes that if n1 represent the number of molecules of a particular kind in a given element of space with a velocity given in direction and magnitude, which we will call v1 ; and if n2 represent the particles of another kind in the same element with the velocity v2, then the number of encounters of these particles is proportional to n1 × n2, and if out of these we select the particular encounters which give rise to a given set of resultant velocities v1' and v2', then we may assume that if the number of particles in the element which originally had the velocities v1' and v2' be called n1' and n2', then n1 n2 = n1' n2' This reasoning does not seem convincing. Assuming that in an element of space the average number of particles having a given velocity is the same, so that n1 and n2 are not functions of v1 and v2 then Mr. Maxwell's statement might be admitted; but if the number of particles in a given element is a function of its velocity in direction and magnitude, then although the average of the numbers in each direction is maintained, it does not follow that the average numbers of particles having the velocities v1' and v2' are directly restored from the particles having the velocities v1' and v2' All that can be assumed is, that the average number of particles in a given element of space is maintained from the particles in that and the remaining elements. Just as in the case of an equilibrium of trade, the average course of exchange with respect to a given country is at par; but we cannot therefore safely assume that the same is the case relatively to any other individual country.
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