English Explanatory Dictionary

Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A particular probability distribution originally defined and used for describing particle speeds in idealized gases. Mathematically, it is the chi distribution with three degrees of freedom (the components of the velocity vector in Euclidean space), with a scale parameter measuring speeds in units proportional to the square root of the ratio of temperature and particle mass.

Word forms

Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions

Etymology

Named after James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann.

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